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The Health Minister said this Tuesday that, as of 6 p.m., 16,701 vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered to health professionals in Portugal, according to information reported to the vaccination information systems.
“Not only is it a figure that exceeds the doses that arrived on the 26th, but it already reflects the doses that arrived yesterday and began to be administered today,” said Marta Temido, at a press conference on the balance of the third day vaccination. in the country.
Marta Temido guaranteed that “so far no serious reactions have been detected” and revealed that the Government hopes to move forward, next week, with vaccination in homes and similar structures. “I remember that any action under these circumstances is filed,” he warned.
“The criteria that we are going to use is related to the municipalities where there is, at this moment, the highest incidence of Covid-19. We have in the country, according to the risk stratification criterion, 25 municipalities with more than 960 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days ”, explained the minister, in statements to the press from the Palácio da Ajuda, after the meeting between the Government and workgroup coordinated by Francisco Ramos.
For the week beginning January 4, another dose of vaccines developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and BioNTech is expected to arrive. Next, vaccination will continue among health professionals and in the homes of municipalities with other levels of risk.
Portugal today surpassed the barrier of 400 thousand infections after more than 3,336 people were infected, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin from the Directorate General of Health (DGS). The number of fatalities from the disease rose to 6,751, with 74 deaths registered in the last 24 hours alone: 24 in the north, nine in the center, 33 in the Lisbon region and the Tagus valley, six in the Alentejo and one in the Algarve and the Azores.
News updated at 7:57 p.m.
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