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Vice Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo defended this Tuesday that he does not consider changing the priority groups of the vaccination plan and leaves messages about the return to normality.
“Although a group is made up of a group of people, the way they are selected has a lot to do with age and risk, but the plan does not detail this stratification,” he added in an interview with TVI 24. “It would not have It makes sense to change priorities because there are no vaccines, ”he said.
Henrique Gouveia e Melo admits, however, that the AstraZeneca vaccine can be used for people over 65 years of age in Portugal, if the shortage persists, since “it is being applied in the United Kingdom and the United States without restrictions”.
The General Directorate of Health (DGS) recommended this Monday that this vaccine should not be administered to this age group “until new data is available.”
The new coordinator of the covid-19 vaccination task force also left a warning about the near future. “It will not be a normal summer. At that time there will still be no group immunity. At Christmas yes, but the vaccines have to arrive on time,” he said.
As for the maximum capacity, the country will be able to administer between 100 and 150 thousand vaccines a day, said the vice admiral. “Let’s do it, so there are vaccines for that,” he repeated. Right now, around 22,000 vaccines are being administered daily and the rate is expected to increase to around 80,000 in the second quarter of this year.
The number of vaccination posts should also be increased from the current 910 to 1,200 posts.
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