Portugal’s next steps to freedom to be outlined on September 23
With the ‘meeting with experts’ concluded yesterday afternoon, Portugal’s government is left to firm out its strategy for the so-called final 3rd step towards ‘freedom’ (or at least relative freedom).
WHO Europe “pessimistic” that vaccines can halt pandemic
The European arm of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted it is “pessimistic over the capacity of the (current vaccines) to halt the Covid-19 pandemic”. In a press conference
“Bring your children for vaccination”: vice admiral Gouveia e Melo in new appeal
Vice-admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, coordinator of Portugal’s vaccine task force, is renewing his appeal to parents: “bring your children for vaccination. If they are not vaccinated it could create
Investigator says 3rd dose roll-out “only makes sense with updated vaccine”
Portuguese ‘pandemic expert’ Miguel Castanho has stressed that talk of a potential 3rd dose roll-out can only make sense if the vaccine has been updated to tackle consequences of more
Delta variant represents 100% of Portugal’s virus infections – and mRNA vaccines are ‘least effective’ at tackling it
This is the conclusion of a new study coming out of Portugal’s public health institute Dr Ricardo Jorge. It should be of no surprise to authorities here, given that studies
DGS u-turn over child vaccinations ‘led by latest data’
UPDATED since originally story was posted, to text that appeared in printed edition of Algarve Resident: DGS flip-flaps on child vaccinations Following days of intense
New study reveals “antibodies fall dramatically months after vaccination; a 3rd dose is inevitable”
A study undertaken by the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra has concluded that antibodies in people vaccinated against Covid-19 fall dramatically within a few months “pointing to the necessity
Marcelo “insists on vaccinating children”
President Marcelo is described today as “insisting on vaccinating children” against Covid-19. Portugal’s head of State has no medical training, and when he took to the presidency in 2016, he
Healthy children need doctor’s prescription for Covid vaccine
After weeks of dilly-dallying and mixed messaging, Portugal’s DGS health authority announced last Friday that, “for the time being”, only children in the 12-15 age-group with “serious underlying diseases” should
Third dose of Covid vaccine? “Doesn’t look like necessity” … but probably “inevitable”
With vaccination policy clearly in the hands of politicians (as witnessed this week with the issue of vaccinating children click here) immunologist Luís Graça has told SIC television news that