Portugal delivered another 477,600 doses of vaccines to Angola
According to a press release from the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, with this donation, part of the second phase of the Action Plan in the health response to the Covid-19 pandemic between Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries and East Timor , “the total number of express vaccines for Angola amounts to almost one million and four hundred thousand doses (1,397,600)”.
“Portugal assumed the political commitment to make available to the PALOP and Timor-Leste at least 5% of its purchases of vaccines against Covid-19, a commitment that was reinforced during the Summit of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) that had place last July in Luanda, “he adds.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,270,700 deaths worldwide, among more than 266.54 million infections by the new coronavirus registered since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the Agence France-Presse.
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.
A new variant, Omicron, classified as “worrying” by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been detected in southern Africa, but since the South African health authorities raised the alert on 24 November, infections have been reported in 57 countries from all continents, including Portugal.