Covid-19: 123,000 people have already received the third dose. Advance scheduling for those over 80 years old
The third dose of the vaccine against covid-19 was administered to 123 thousand citizens residing in Portugal, as part of the second phase of the vaccination campaign against a complaint, printed on Monday, announced this Sunday, the General Directorate of Health ( DGS).
In the second phase of the vaccination campaign against covid-19 and 279,000 the flu vaccine, which arrived on Monday, 123 thousand received an additional dose of the vaccine against covid-19 and 279 thousand received the flu vaccine, according to a note from press of the DGS.
This phase includes citizens aged 65 or over and who are not included in the target groups of the 1st phase and began with users over 80 years old, starting in descending order of age.
“The rate of flu vaccination depends on the delivery of vaccines in the national territory and corrected according to the availability of vaccines”, explains the DGS, ensuring that “from the beginning of November it is expected that the number of available vaccines will be sufficient to accelerate the pace of vaccination”.
Similar to what happened in the first phase, citizens are summoned through a written message to take both vaccines at the same time or just the flu vaccine.
Automatic scheduling is again possible on the Covid-19 Portal, available from Tuesday to seniors aged 80 years and over
“There are cases, however, in which patients are called below the range that is open because they already meet all the eligibility criteria and not to delay the process,” said the DGS.
Full vaccination against covid-19 covers 85.7% of the Portuguese population.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,926,579 deaths worldwide, among more than 242.39 million infections with the new coronavirus registered since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the Agence France-Presse, released on Friday. fair.
In Portugal, since March 2020, 18,129 people have died and 1,084,534 cases of infection have been recorded, according to data from the General Directorate of Health.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in several countries.