Covid-19 vaccine New asset scheduling portal. Self-scheduling portal of the National Health Service. Throughout Thursday, January 6th, the Covid-19 vaccination self-scheduling page was down. This unavailability of the website was due to the high turnout for scheduling the vaccination, said the prime minister, António Costa, considering that this would prove the "great adherence" to the third dose.

Covid-19 vaccine. New asset scheduling portal
Covid-19 vaccine. New asset scheduling portal

This Friday, the Covid-19 Portal is already in operation for those who want to schedule the vaccines against Covid-19, after the previous day was down.

In a statement from the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (SPMS), the reason why the Covid-19 Portal revealed "instability", which resulted "from high demand. SPMS, EPE is carrying out technical interventions to ensure improved performance. of the Portal", the statement said.

António Costa, during the press conference after the Council of Ministers on Thursday, also mentioned the reasons for this "instability".

He stated that, with the teachers' call, "there was a moment when the 'website' [for scheduling the Ministry of Health] was down, which is a good sign because it means a great adherence to the vaccine booster".

António Costa indicated that “under normal conditions”, Portugal has the capacity to administer 94,000 doses of vaccine per day, but that “the system always has some elasticity” and “a peak in affluence” is expected.

When accessing the self-scheduling page, yesterday it read "Dear user. The service is in high demand. Please try again in a few minutes. Thank you very much".

This Friday, the services are already restored and you enter the portal, apparently without difficulty.