Vaccine deliveries now every week – Coronavirus –

One week after the arrival of the first around 10,000 doses of the Biontech / Pfizer corona vaccine at Stefanitag in Vienna, partial deliveries of around 60,000 doses per week will be made over the course of January starting next week. After vaccination began on December 27, 2020, the previous participation of those affected in Austria far exceeds 50 percent, the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday.

Furthermore, tolerance with the thousands of test vaccines in nursing homes and in Covid wards across Austria has so far been very good. These vaccines to gain experience in logistics, process and implementation will continue next week in many other nursing homes and nursing homes in the federal states. As of Tuesday, January 5, the registration process of vaccination requirements begins through the authorized lines of homes for the elderly and the elderly and the Covid stations in the electronic store of the Federal Procurator GmbH (BBG).

In accordance with these requirements, delivery is made through 17 distribution centers throughout Austria to ensure that the vaccine is handled with care. The goal is to prepare a rapid simultaneous vaccination nationwide throughout Austria from January 12, the department said.

After an approval decision by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Moderna is expected on 6 January, Austria could add another 200,000 to the million doses of Biontech / Pfizer planned for the first trimester. Get doses of this second mRNA vaccine during this period. This should be stored frozen at minus 20 degrees and also requires two partial shots. Moderna is already used in the US and Canada.

The head of the vaccination department in the Ministry of Health and at the same time a member of the National Vaccination Committee, Maria Paulke-Korinek, said in December, in response to concerns about the two mRNA vaccines, that they are not absolutely new, but that more than 20 years of research have been behind them: it’s new. nanoparticle technology to stabilize the vaccine.

According to the Ministry of Health on December 30, around 6,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 so far. Unlike Germany, there is no daily updated data in Austria and there is currently no breakdown of individual federal states. The Ministry of Social Affairs initially only promises “regular updates”, as well as an improvement in data quality with the start of large-scale vaccination from January 12.

“Our vaccination strategy directly with those affected is carefully prepared and then can be implemented at a faster pace across the board and at the same time. – As a result, the required second vaccination can “be prepared and implemented very precisely and on time,” said Health Minister Rudi Anschober (Greens).

After the first two months of 2021, vaccination will be implemented free of charge and step by step for all interested parties, with freedom of choice for all.

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