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Portugal administered 62,000 vaccines against covid-19 this Saturday, according to information released today by the working group, which adds that 80% of those over 80 have already received at least one dose of the vaccine.
The figure covers the total number of people who received a dose of vaccine on Saturday and is “the highest number since the vaccination process began.”
Today, the coordinator of the working group, Vice Admiral Gouveia e Melo, said that on Saturday 44 thousand teachers and non-teachers were vaccinated, which represents the majority of the doses administered.
The information released today adds that the vaccination this weekend allowed the country to reach today “another relevant milestone for the success of the vaccination plan: 80% of people over 80 years of age have already been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine. against covid-19.
Today, in Faro, the coordinator of the working group said that the country will need to hire more professionals to accelerate the immunization process in the coming months, but the figures are still under analysis.
On Saturday, the first day of vaccination for teachers and school personnel, he had already mentioned an acceleration of the vaccination process from April, estimating that it is possible to vaccinate 100,000 people a day, taking into account the remittances planned for the second quarter.
If in this first quarter Portugal received two million vaccines, the forecast for the second quarter is nine million, of which 1.8 million in April and the rest in the following two months.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 2,777,761 deaths worldwide, the product of more than 126.6 million cases of contagion, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 16,837 people died from 820,407 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the General Health Directorate.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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