Lisbon, Jan. 12, 2021 (Lusa) - Portugal's health minister Marta Temido is to chair an informal meeting of EU health ministers on Wednesday to take stock of the vaccination process and the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first informal meeting of the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) will be attended by European health commissioner Stella Kyriakides and representatives of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The meeting, which will be held by videoconference from the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, will provide an update on the strategies of the various Member States for vaccination against Covid-19 and for combating the pandemic.
Portugal has held the six-monthly rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) since 1 January, with Minister Marta Temido chairing the health ministers' councils of the 27 over the coming months, which will continue to be dominated by the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid-19 has caused at least 1,945,437 deaths out of over 90.8 million cases of infection worldwide.
In Portugal, 8,080 people have died out of 496,552 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent health authority (DGS) bulletin.
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