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The Prime Minister welcomed the arrival of the first batch of covid-19 vaccines in Portugal this Saturday, praising the “extraordinary effort” of Science and the “exemplary coordination” of the European Union, but stressed that it is still too early for guard down .
“Today the first batch of the vaccine against covid-19 arrived. An extraordinary effort of Science, an exemplary coordination of the European Union, wrote António Costa, in a published message on your official Twitter social network account.
The prime minister recalls that the country still has “several months of well-planned work ahead of it,” but, he stressed, now one can be “sure that there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
“But we have not yet left the tunnel. So it is still early to lower our guard and relax in the protective measures. With determination reinforced by this moment of hope,” said António Costa, who is in prophylactic isolation in the official residence of São Bento, in Lisbon.
The first batch of vaccines is already in Portugal
The first batch of vaccine against covid-19 developed by Pfizer-BioNTech arrived this Saturday morning in Portugal and includes 9,750 doses for health professionals in the university hospital centers of Porto, São João, Coimbra, Lisbon North and Lisbon Central .
This batch of 9,750 doses will be reinforced with the anticipation of the delivery of another 70,200 doses, which are scheduled to arrive on Monday, increasing the total available for administration until the end of the year to 79,950 vaccines, according to the Ministry of Health.
Between December and the first quarter of 2021, which corresponds to the period of the first phase defined by the working group responsible for the vaccination plan, Portugal expects to receive 1.2 million vaccines, distributed in three periods: 312,975 doses in December. and January, 429 thousand doses in February and 487,500 in March.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,743,187 deaths derived from more than 79.3 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 6,478 people died from 391,782 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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