The Tavira Vaccination Center is one of 12 nationwide where vaccination against Covid-19 and the flu will start on the 7th of September, announced today Colonel Carlos Penha-Gonçalves, coordinator of the Coordination Center for Support to the Ministry of Health.
At a press conference, the Director-General for Health announced that the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 and the flu will start on the 7th in those over 80 and in people with comorbidities.
According to Graça Freitas, adapted vaccines will be used “from the beginning”, to be administered as a booster dose, to the ómicron variant, as they have an “efficacy and safety profile adapted to the variants in circulation”.
Across the country, there will be 397 vaccination points, but not all of them will start at the same time.
On the 7th, the campaign starts in a limited way, and should be generalized the following day to the whole country. Thus, according to Colonel Penha-Gonçalves, on the first day the campaign will only take place at the vaccination centers in Braga, Gondomar, Porto Ocidental, Aveiro, Pombal, Amadora, Cascais, Ajuda, Carnaxide, Mafra, Évora and Tavira.
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For his part, Rui Santos Ivo, president of the National Medicines Authority (Infarmed), explained that the adapted vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna will “start being distributed next week”, with their arrival in Portugal expected on the same day. September 6th.
At stake is the immunization of three million people, in a campaign that will take place between the 7th of September and the 17th of December. The goal is to vaccinate 280 people a week.
Precisely to respond to this campaign, the Câmara de Silves has already announced that the Vaccination Center at FISSUL It will be reactivated from the 6th.
In this campaign, there are slight differences from the previous ones, with regard to the groups eligible for vaccination. Thus, for the booster dose against Covid, people aged 60 or over, residents and professionals from nursing homes and long-term care units, people aged 12 or over with comorbidities, pregnant women aged 18 or over were considered as risk groups. years with pathology and health professionals.
The age group of 65 years or older and people with comorbidities, aged over six months, were also considered eligible for the free flu vaccine. In pregnant women, there is no age limit.
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