A million doses of adapted Covid vaccines for Portugal
Today (Monday) Portugal received around half a million doses of the new Covid vaccines, adapted to the BA.4 and BA.5 variants. By the end of the month, the country is
Summer’s over: ‘time for new Covid jabs’
With ‘breaking news’ yesterday that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal has one crept over the ‘ideal’ level of 1 (and news earlier in the week of a looming vaccination campaign
DGS to prioritise Covid vaccines for 5-11 year olds
New vaccination campaign begins on September 5 According to Público today, Portugal’s DGS health authority remains focused on encouraging 5-11 year olds to take up the offer of Covid mRNA
“No need for 4th dose of Covid vaccine”
Experts “guarantee”, says Expresso, “for the time being…” In what Expresso presents as an exclusive this morning, the paper’s online proclaims “Covid-19: DGS specialists guarantee there is no necessity for
Six-year-old’s death post-vaccine was “not due to vaccine”, says institute of legal medicine
The death of a six year old boy a few days after he received his first dose of Covid vaccine (click here) was not due to the vaccine, reports affirm
DGS health authority accused of releasing “dubious technical opinion” to try and persuade more parents to submit children to Covid vaccination
Yesterday news sources in Portugal quoted a ‘technical opinion’ released by the DGS health authority suggesting incidents of myocarditis in children infected by SARS-CoV-2 were 60 times higher than in
Parents maintain half-hearted uptake of Covid vaccines for 5-11 year olds
Portugal’s parents have not come forwards in the large numbers encouraged to vaccinate their 5-11 year olds. In spite of constant reassurances by the authorities that the vaccines “are safe”,
Less than 50% of Portugal’s 5-11 year olds turn up for Covid vaccinations
Following the intensive campaign to encourage Portuguese parents to vaccinate their 5-11 year olds, less than half appear to have been convinced. Parents’ doubts as to the real need to
Vaccinations exclusively for children and school community begin today
From today until Sunday, around 154,000 children between the ages of 5-11 will be being vaccinated in the mornings at centres up and down the country, while teachers and educators
“Only 35% of over-80s in hospital with Covid in October were vaccinated” – official data
The drive to encourage citizens to take-up the offer of Covid booster shots continues apace in Portugal, with new statistics revealed suggesting ‘two-thirds of the over 80s hospitalised with Covid-19