The Municipality of Tavira, together with the Grouping of Health Centres of Sotavento, have created a rapid vaccination centre in the Sports Pavilion of the D. Paio Peres Correia School, which is now ready to open and receive the community to start the Covid vaccination process.
According to the Tavira municipality, "the space, consisting of consists of a waiting and pre-vaccination area with a nursing room, five vaccination stations, as well as a post-vaccination monitoring area with a follow-up room, will have the capacity to vaccinate 50 people per hour and will start its function as soon as the necessary doses for intensive vaccination are available".
Olhão, Faro and Lagoa rapid vaccination centres have also been given the green light to open, however, without adequate stocks of vaccine none of the centres can yet begin functioning. Centres are scheduled to open at the beginning of May.
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