Vaccination Of Teachers And Non-Teaching Staff To Help Combat COVID-19 Pandemic In Portugal

AMADORA, PORTUGAL - APRIL 17: Health technicians check a people's data before inoculation on the day in which Portuguese teachers and non-teaching staff of educational establishments and professionals from social responses receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, before the return of on-site teaching on next April 19 in all secondary schools and universities in the country regardless of the degree of risk in each municipality, at the vaccination center opened by Amadora Municipality in the Rita Borralho Municipal School Sports Pavilion during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on April 17, 2021 in Amadora, Portugal. Nearly 170,000 teachers and school employees will receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine between during the weekend. According to updated data from the General Direction of Health (DGS) Portugal confirmed a total of 829,911 infections and 16,937 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The government has relaxed confinement measures and renewed the country's state of emergency until April 30. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)