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Portugal is the most vaccinated country in the world: from 1 October, restrictive measures will be eliminated

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LISBON – 84% of Portugal’s 12-year-old population is fully vaccinated. 86% received a dose. The country (10 million inhabitants) tops the list of those with the highest vaccination rate in the world, ahead of the United Arab Emirates (80.8%) and Singapore (77.3%) and 62% of the states. members of the European Union.

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by our correspondent Anna Lombardi


From 1 October Lisbon will ease the restrictive measures imposed to stem the pandemic, including border blockades, public places and family events. Bars and nightclubs will reopen, closed from March 2020, but the mask will remain mandatory on means of transport, in major events, in nursing homes and in shops. Excluding outdoor use. The limit on the number of people in events, weddings and restaurants has also been eliminated. Hospitalizations for Covid have dropped to a minimum since the inception of Covid.

The Green Pass will not be mandatory in hotels and gyms, but required for travel by plane, ship and for sporting events.

The admiral-hero

The vice admiral has successfully conducted this vaccination campaign since February Henrique Gouveia e Melo, became a national hero, and a natural predisposition of the Portuguese towards vaccines.

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Gouveia and Melo, writes the Financial Times, was thrilled when a long ovation greeted him in a crowded vaccination center. “I couldn’t stop myself,” said the 60-year-old Mozambican-born officer, who heads the vaccination campaign task force. “People used to tell me ‘we are with you'”.

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The reasons for the success

A week earlier he had won the country’s acclaim for his handling of a no-vax protest, politely responding to angry protesters who gave him the killer, that “the real killer is the virus.” “What matters is to vaccinate enough people to protect the whole country,” the admiral said. “Being first, second or third in the world is not important”.

Health experts stresses the Ft, attribute the success of Portugal’s vaccination to cooperation between doctors, military and local officials. They also cite the memory of how vaccination has been used successfully against measles, polio and other deadly diseases. Pedro Simas, executive director of the Católica Biomedical Research Institute in Lisbon, believes that strong public adherence to the program has its roots in Portugal’s first national vaccination plan in 1965.

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