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As we know, the vaccine has already reached Portugal, but the discussion on the subject has been going on for some time. There are those who defend vaccination, but there are also those who are totally against it.
After Spain made it known that it would register anyone who refused to be vaccinated, Portugal has already confirmed that vaccination “is a voluntary and highly encouraged act.”
Portugal has a "great adherence" to vaccination
At this time, Portugal will not register people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the director general of Health said on Tuesday.
Graça Freitas highlighted the “great adherence” to the vaccination process in these first days and admitted that the start of vaccination is “a very complex movement” that occurs simultaneously in the member states of the European Union and moved away the Portuguese position from the adopted system in Spain. , which will keep a record of the names of the people who refuse to receive the vaccine.
There are things that can evolve over time, but to date, this vaccine is considered the same as the others. Despite being new, having been produced in record time and having a different technology, it has not passed the European Medicines Agency's screen and is not an experimental medicine.
General Director of Health, Graça Freitas
Source: ULS Watch
Regarding COVID-19 cases among health professionals, the Director General of Health clarified that 16,663 cases have been reported since the beginning of the pandemic, of which some 9,600 are already considered recovered.
Still in this regard, he assured that professionals who have already been infected will not be excluded from vaccination.
All healthcare professionals who have direct contact with patients are eligible candidates for vaccination. We are following a logic of priority and from the beginning these professionals will not enter priority immediately, but it is a matter of weeks. In the first trimester we will have all health professionals vaccinated.
They will not enter with priority, but nothing prevents them from being vaccinated and they will be vaccinated
Vaccination at ULS Guarda
According to Graça Freitas, the first two days of administration of the COVID-19 vaccine "went quite well", taking into account the involvement of "many entities" in a "mega vaccination operation", which, in short, "can cover to the entire Portuguese population ”in the future.
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