LISBON, April 19 (NNN-Xinhua) — Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced that 183,000 jabs were administered against COVID-19 this weekend, with the vaccination of 170,000 teachers and school staff completed.
The immunization of Portuguese education professionals had been interrupted due to questions raised about the AstraZeneca vaccine.
According to Costa, “the vaccination process is proceeding in its normal terms” and Portugal “is ready to fulfill the objective” of its immunization process.
The Portuguese head of government predicted that “the entire population over 70 years old may be vaccinated” by the end of this month of April, and people over 60 years old by the month of May.
This would represent the immunization of “96 percent of the population in the age group” with a higher mortality rate of COVID-19, said Costa.
Over 2.5 million people have been vaccinated, the Portuguese health authorities said.
As the world is struggling to contain the pandemic, vaccination is underway in an increasing number of countries with already-authorized coronavirus vaccines. — NNN-XINHUA