Pfizer Portugal expects Covid-19 vaccine in early 2021

If the Pfizer vaccine has the approval of the European Medicines Agency, which can be given at a meeting on December 29, the pharmacist ensures that it will arrive in three days, that is, on January 1 or 2, to the vaccination points that are chosen in Portugal.

“What we have estimated in our plans is that, once approved, and knowing which are the vaccination points where we have to send the vaccines, in three days at the most we will have the vaccines in the designated places,” said Susana Castro Marques, medical director of Pfizer Portugal, in declarations to RTP.

Pfizer and BioNTech will ensure transport from the factory (they will be produced in Belgium and Germany) to the vaccination sites designated by the Portuguese authorities in thermal boxes.

Susana Castro Marques said there will be an “aerial distribution component to some central points of the country or region” and then another terrestrial transportation network component “to make the distribution from these central points to other locations that are designated.”

Pfizer Portugal expects to vaccinate 300,000 Portuguese against Covid-19 in the first phase of vaccination, revealed Pfizer Portugal’s director general, Paulo Teixeira, at a conference promoted by CIP, and quoted by TSF. The vaccine is more than 90% effective.