The prime minister said this Thursday, November 19, that Portugal is prepared to buy around 16 million doses of three vaccines against covid-19 and added that Brussels is preparing a fight against disinformation campaigns in relation to vaccination.
These positions were transmitted by António Costa at a press conference, at the end of the summit of heads of state and government on the fight against covid-19, which took place by videoconference.
In front of journalists, the prime minister reiterated the idea that vaccines against covid-19 "will be distributed according to a grid defined by the European Commission, taking into account the population of each Member State".
"They will be distributed simultaneously in all Member States and under the same conditions", reinforced the Prime Minister.
In the case of Portugal, according to António Costa, “with regard to three of the vaccines, the doses to be purchased have already been defined: in one, 6,9 million; in another 4,6 million; and, in the third, 4,5 million».
"This is what is currently being defined according to the distribution grid that was defined according to the population of all the Member States", justified the Prime Minister.
At the summit of Heads of State and Government, according to the Prime Minister, “it was also established that the European Commission will develop work so that there is a common information strategy on vaccination, so that there is confidence in the citizenry. around the Covid-19 vaccine'.
A campaign that, according to the Portuguese prime minister, "aimed at preventing false information and counter-information campaigns – campaigns that are known to be being prepared against the vaccination program".
With regard to the vaccination program, António Costa said that the European Commission confirmed that it had already signed four contracts with multinational pharmaceutical companies, with three more still under negotiation.
“There is a joint work between the European and North American drug agencies to have a recognition and simultaneous approval of the vaccines that are in development. The President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen informed that there is an optimistic idea from the European Medical Agency that, during December, it will be able to grant the first conditional authorizations for the vaccines”, he added.
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