(Bloomberg) -- Portugal’s Directorate-General for Health said that until new data is available, AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine should be “preferably” used for people age 65 and younger.
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In no situation should the vaccination of older people be delayed if only the AstraZeneca vaccine is available, the Directorate-General of Health said on Monday in a statement posted on its website.
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Portugal has already been administering Pfizer-BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc. vaccines.
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