{"id":6718,"date":"2021-09-30T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:51:59","slug":"portugal-donates-1-2-million-vaccines-to-portuguese-speaking-african-countries-mozambique-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-1-2-million-vaccines-to-portuguese-speaking-african-countries-mozambique-included","title":{"rendered":"Portugal donates 1.2 million vaccines to Portuguese-speaking African countries, Mozambique included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Portugal has sent 1.2 million vaccines to Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) and East Timor as part of the cooperation programme, the foreign minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment, of the 3 million doses that we said in July that we would donate to the PALOP countries and East Timor, 1.217 million doses of vaccines have been delivered, including the batch delivered on Tuesday to Mozambique and one that will arrive today in Angola,\u201d said Augusto Santos Silva, on the sidelines of the signing of a protocol with TAP, which will allow free transport of these vaccines on commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe programme began in May, with Cabo Verde, and currently all the PALOP countries and East Timor are receiving vaccines, with Brazil receiving support in the form of medication and other treatment materials during the most critical period of the pandemic under this programme that extends to 2022,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine donation programme for Portuguese-speaking African countries and Brazil and East Timor, among others, \u201cis part of a national effort that the government defined from the beginning of the fight against the pandemic, in the first half of 2020,\u201d which translated into vaccinating the Portuguese population and, in parallel, donating vaccines to traditional partners of national cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Lusa whether Equatorial Guinea also received vaccines or support from Portugal, the minister replied: \u201cEquatorial Guinea is among the PALOP countries and is involved in this programme but, first, it is a small country that has a more advanced vaccination programme than other countries and, secondly, naturally we start by favouring the partner countries of our cooperation with which we have a practice and logistics of cooperation that allows us to be more effective in the displacement and distribution of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is natural that in countries with whom we have installed cooperation logistics, the process is simpler and, therefore, a priority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed this morning between TAP and Cam\u00f5es \u2013 Institute for Cooperation and Language and provides free transport on commercial flights of materials and vaccines from Portugal to the countries receiving this aid.<\/p>\n<p>The covid-19 has caused at least 4,752,875 deaths worldwide, among 232.27 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest balance of the agency France-Presse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Portugal has sent 1.2 million vaccines to Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) and East Timor as part of the cooperation programme, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. \u201cAt this moment, of the 3 million doses that we said in July that we would donate to the PALOP countries and East Timor, 1.217 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Portugal donates 1.2 million vaccines to Portuguese-speaking African countries, Mozambique included - 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