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The UK will start the vaccination campaign next week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday. The British Medicines Regulator has granted authorization for the emergency use of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. The elderly and home care workers will be the first to be vaccinated.
Miguel Prudêncio, a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, believes that vaccination will soon begin in other European countries, specifically in Portugal.
But why was the process faster in the UK? According to the researcher, the process of evaluation and approval of the vaccine has been carried out in parallel in the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States and that, in a few days, other authorities will comment.
The fact that the vaccination campaign starts earlier in the UK will give other countries a chance to follow the process and even learn, he said.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, Miguel Prudêncio says that the vaccine will soon reach Portugal, but not all at the same time. “The first tranche will be 300,000 vaccines,” he says. And, to achieve group immunity that allows a return to normality, 70 to 80% of the Portuguese population must be vaccinated.
“It is expected that it will take a few months to achieve immunity for this group,” he added.
