Portugal receives vaccines for contacts with Monkeypox until the end of the month – Observer
The director-general of Health said this Wednesday, in Alpiarça, that Portugal will receive until the end of the month as 2,700 made available by the European Union for vaccinated people who have had contact with infected with the Monkeypox virus.
Graça Freitas, who presented the seasonal health plan “Verão Seguro” at the Casa-Museu dos Patudos, in Alpiarça, said that final this Wednesday the document that allows the European mechanism to donate vaccines to Portugal.
“We will have these vaccines by the end of the month. We already have a position from the Technical Commission on Vaccination on who are the candidates to be vaccinated ”, she said, adding that issues such as informed knowledge are being published.
According to Graçatas, at the end of preparing an orientation with Frei, which is to be worked on with clinicians, the Vaccination Technical Commission and partners from other institutions.
“It is a European Union that is still important enough to have sufficient contacts”, he said, stressing that the amount of Portugal for the vaccine is sufficient” for the other mechanisms that Portugal can use, “its other mechanisms that Portugal can use” necessary ”.
Portugal recorded this Tuesday another seven new cases of human infection by Monkeypox virus, which means that the total number has increased to 317 infected people, according to data from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
Portugal with 317 confirmed cases of Monkeypox
By the time it caused outbreaks, the Central and Western Monkey, being that the African continent had just passed and now only had more than 150 epidemic cases of separate epidemic.
Vaccines have never been used in Africa to control monkeypox.
Last week, WHO Tedro-General, Tedro-General, Adhan, described the continued spread of Monkeypox in countries that have seen the disease “unusual and concerning”.
Tedros Ads Ghebreye meeting convened an expert deliberation for Thursday, to decide on the boom in expansion should be designed for a global emergency.
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