Here we follow all developments on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on an international scale.
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13h43 – Centro Hospitalar do Algarve will start vaccination on Tuesday
The Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve (CHUA) will start vaccination against covid-19 on Tuesday, said today the president of the center’s board of directors, which includes hospitals in Faro, Portimão and Lagos.
“We will start vaccinating on the 29th, Tuesday,” stated Ana Castro, clarifying that CHUA has planned to vaccinate “professionals and patients who meet the criteria” defined in the vaccination plan until January 31st.
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13h30 – Azores with 10 new cases in São Miguel in the last 24 hours
The Azores have registered 10 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, all in São Miguel, currently having 273 people with the disease, the Regional Health Authority announced today.
According to the authority, 711 analyzes were carried out in the last 24 hours in the two reference laboratories in the region, one in São Miguel and another in Terceira.
Currently, 20 people are hospitalized in the region with the disease: 14 at the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada (one of which in Intensive Care) and six at the Santo Espírito Hospital on Ilha Terceira (two in Intensive Care).
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13h20 – Outbreak in the home of Alcáçovas causes second death and three more infected
An elderly woman who was hospitalized at the Hospital do Espírito Santo, in Évora, is the second deadly victim of the outbreak of covid-19 in the home of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Alcáçovas, informed the provider today, João Penetra.
The institution’s services, in the municipality of Viana do Alentejo, detected three more infected users, a number that increases the total number of users with active infection by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to 50, in an outbreak that has already registered 73 positive cases, of which of which 21 are employees.
All users and employees who had a negative result a week ago will be tested again on Monday by the Health Authority, João Penetra told Lusa, admitting that the new tests may reveal some more cases.
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12h55 – First batch of vaccines arrives in the Azores until Tuesday
The Government of the Azores said today that the arrival of the first batch of 9,750 doses of vaccine against covid-19 in the region was anticipated, and they should arrive by Tuesday.
The vaccines, said in a statement the regional secretary of Health, Clélio Meneses, will be delivered directly to the island of Terceira, and will be transported on a SATA plane.
“The supplier has already informed that the delivery will take place on the 28th or 29th of the current year, the only thing missing is that it tells us which flight the batch of vaccines will be transported on,” said the official.
The 9,750 doses of the vaccine will be administered to 4,875 people, with half reserved for the second inoculation, since the vaccine is administered twice per person, 21 days apart.
In the region, the first to vaccinate, until March next year, will be the institutionalized elderly in homes, residential structures, long-term care network and health homes.
At the same time, health professionals and people identified in the regional vaccination plan with disease or pathology will be vaccinated.
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12h50 – President of the Order of Doctors appeals to Portuguese to “not be afraid to get vaccinated”
The president of the Order of Doctors (OM), Miguel Guimarães, who this morning was vaccinated against the covid-19 at the Hospital de São João in Porto, took the opportunity to appeal to the Portuguese who “are not afraid of getting vaccinated”.
“The challenge I leave to the Portuguese is that they are not afraid of getting vaccinated”, said Miguel Guimarães, considering that this is “an act of citizenship”.
The President of OM is a urologist at the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João, having been summoned by the administration of this hospital unit for the first phase of vaccination against covid-19 for his activity in the area of kidney transplantation.
Miguel Guimarães was vaccinated at about 11:45 am. He told reporters that “it was very fast, it does not give any pain and the administration is extremely simple”.
“I have already made other vaccines, there are more painful vaccines, this is not the case, this is a very simple vaccine, well applied, without any type of problem”, he described.
The doctor recalled that “immunity takes time to arrive” and that “it will be necessary to do a second dose on January 17th” and that “from there, yes, immunity is more strengthened”.
“We must use all means of individual and collective protection”, he stressed, adding that “as everyone gets vaccinated, everyone gets more protected and it will be possible to achieve group immunity, which in practice means winning fighting this virus “.
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12h44 – Vaccination started in Coimbra
Vaccination will take place over a few days for these professionals.
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The vaccination also started this Sunday in Coimbra, at the Hospital and University Center, where reporter Carolina Ferreira was.
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12h36 – António Costa says it is “a day of encouragement and hope”
On this day when vaccination against Covid-19 begins, the Prime Minister responded by saying that this is one of the days that “will remain forever in our memories”.
Through Twiteer, António Costa wrote that “it is a day of encouragement and hope that gives us strength to continue working with the same determination”.
There are days that will remain forever in our memories. As planned, the vaccination process started, which will occupy us for months and which forces us to maintain all care. But it is a day of encouragement and hope that gives us strength to continue working with the same determination
– António Costa (@antoniocostapm) December 27, 2020
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12:20 pm – Hospital of São João adopted several measures for the vaccination process
This Sunday began the vaccination against Covid-19 in Portugal.
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This is a mega operation involving five university hospital centers.
At the São João Hospital, in Porto, the goal is to vaccinate two thousand health professionals in ten hours.
And it was at Hospital de São João that the first vaccine against Covid was administered in Portugal.
This was the Hospital Center that also received the first case of coronavirus in the country, in March.
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11:23 am – Iran registers 119 more fatalities from Covid-19
11h17 – The Minister of Health reiterated today, in Porto, that vaccinating against covid-19 in the first place, health professionals was a “pragmatic choice” and that in January the vaccination program in structures for the elderly begins.
“(It was) a pragmatic choice at a time that is just the first moment of a phase. We received vaccines yesterday (Saturday) and we will receive more vaccines tomorrow (Monday) and we will receive more vaccines in the four weeks of January. We estimate that in these weeks of January we move from vaccinations to health professionals to vaccinations to residential structures for the elderly, “said Marta Temido.
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10H57 – Internist doctor Sandra Braz was the first to be vaccinated at Santa Maria Hospital
10h41 – Vaccination in Lisbon, at Hospital Curry Cabral, also started this morning.
10h33 – Vaccination in Portugal symbolizes the capacity for “joint” work, says Minister of Health
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10:32 am – Africa with 412 more dead and 21,026 infected in the last 24 hours
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10h07 – First vaccine for Covid-19 administered in Portugal
António Sarmento, Director of the Infection Service at Hospital São João, in Porto, received the vaccine this morning.
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09h14 – Spain has already started with vaccination
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09h11 – More than 80 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, including 1.76 million deaths, have been recorded worldwide since the pandemic began a year ago, according to a count by AFP.
08h25 – Italy has started vaccination
08h13 – Russia with more 28,284 cases and 552 fatalities
08h12 – Bolsonaro says he does not feel pressured to start vaccination
President of Brazil again raised doubts about the safety of vaccines.
08h11 – Vaccination campaign kicks off in several EU Member States
07h57 – Germany with more 13755 cases and 356 fatalities
07h56 – Czech Republic started vaccination
Prime Minister Andrej Babis was the first to receive the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.
Portugal starts today the first vaccination phase against covid-19, more than nine months after the first case registered in the country, in an initiative that covers the 27 member states of the European Union over the next two days.
On Saturday another 1,214 cases of infection and 78 deaths were registered.
The Northern region accounted for 451 more cases, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region more 438, the Center region more 148, the Alentejo but 85, the Algarve more 43, the Azores more 21 and Madeira more 21 cases.
Contrary to Friday, Saturday’s epidemiological bulletin indicates that hospitalizations have increased again: there are 36 more patients in wards and nine more in intensive care units.
Portugal has already registered, since the beginning of the pandemic, 392,996 cases of infection and 6,556 deaths.
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