Adão de Almeida, who was speaking at a press conference to present the new rules on the situation of public calamity that will take effect from 00:00 on March 12, indicated that the decision was "the result of the epidemiological assessment and approach that the new variants of the virus suggest related "to the matter.
The minister explained, however, that some precautionary measures will be taken to ensure that a "safe" recovery is made "in due course".
According to the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, a new priority group will be introduced in the vaccination plan, starting next week, more specifically the pre-school educators, a process that will start in Luanda and later will be expanded to the provinces of Cabinda and Benguela.
The health official appealed to the heads of the day care centers to make the survey of educators on the platform available for that purpose so that the vaccination process is faster.
Questioned by journalists, Silvia Lutucuta reaffirmed the Government's confidence in the Astrazeneca vaccine, indicating that there is no record of adverse effects worth mentioning.
About the time when she was vaccinated (the minister received the first dose on March 10, at a time when more than 11 thousand people had already been immunized), Sílvia Lutucuta explained that the vaccination plan initially contemplated frontline professionals and to follow all health professionals.
It was in this context, she explained, that the minister herself was vaccinated, as holder of the portfolio and as a doctor.
To date, more than 24 thousand people have been vaccinated, including health professionals and others who are quite exposed, as well as people over 65 and comorb, the decilities.
In a presidential form that updates the rules in force in the situation of public calamity as of 00:00 on Friday, it follows the previous guidelines, maintaining the sanitary fence.
Among the changes are the suspension of the resumption of pre-school education, the resumption of direct flights to Portugal, Brazil and South Africa and the end of restrictions on religious services.
