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The vaccination against covid-19 of teachers and non-teachers of preschool and 1st cycle, which was scheduled for next weekend, had to be postponed, due to the temporary suspension of the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine for a matter of precaution . trying to understand whether the three dozen cases of thromboembolism (blood clots) reported to date in the approximately five million people who have already received the first dose in the European Union are related to the administration of this drug or not.
The vaccination of some 78,700 teachers and assistants identified by the Ministries of Education and Social Welfare was planned during the weekend operation, according to a source from the working group (workgroup) responsible for the national vaccination plan against covid-19. Nursery schools and other didactic cycles are for later.
The operation was expected to proceed in “three modes.” In counties where the number of people to be immunized was less than 250, vaccination was scheduled to take place in health centers; in those ranging between 250 and 500, it would be carried out in school groups; and, in those with more than 500, it would be carried out in vaccination centers against covid-19 already in operation. “It will be a test to see how these centers are working,” explained the source of the workgroup.
Professors and assistants will be inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, which allows a 12-week interval until the second dose.
Those responsible for workgroup have ensured that the immunization of teachers, educators and preschool and 1st cycle staff will not affect the vaccination of other priority groups in the first phase of the operation, the elderly from 80 years of age and people from 50 to 79 years of age with a higher risk of diseases associated with covid-19 (heart failure, coronary artery disease, more severe kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and trisomy 21).
For these people who are part of the “saving lives” group, 90% of the doses that arrive in Portugal are reserved, leaving the remaining 10% for all groups included in the “Resilience State”, to which the week was added. past teachers and non-teachers of educational and educational establishments and also professionals of “social responses”.
To date, according to the latest data sent to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), people over 80 years of age are vaccinated with the first half dose (49.7%). And 13.1%, with the second dose.
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