The first Modern vaccine arrived in Austria «kleinezeitung.at



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7,200 cans arrived in Austria on Tuesday morning.

9:16 a.m., January 12, 2021

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The American pharmaceutical company Moderna has begun to distribute its corona vaccine in Europe. The company announced this in Frankfurt am Main. A large international logistics company will distribute the active ingredient produced in a pharmaceutical factory in Switzerland to individual nation states. There is a central warehouse in each country where the contractually agreed doses of vaccination are delivered.

In Austria, the first cans arrived on Tuesday morning, earlier than expected, as confirmed by Health Minister Rudolf Anschober. “This morning the first 7,200 doses of Moderna’s vaccine arrived in Austria, another 10,000 doses will be received at the end of January and then a total of 200,000 of this additional vaccine for the first quarter. With this alone, 100,000 people in Austria can be vaccinated against Corona by the end of March, “said the minister.

Another 690,000 cans will follow in the second quarter. “Moderna’s vaccination must also be strongly cooled (-15 to -25 degrees Celsius), and according to the recommendation of the granting authority, the two partial vaccinations should be carried out within a 28-day interval,” Anschober explains.

According to Moderna, the EU insured a total of 160 million cans for the current year. At USA, Canada and other countries He is already vaccinated with Moderna serum.

Vaccine details

Moderna’s Covid vaccine should, according to the company act for at least a year. Moderna wants to deliver a total of 600 million to 1 billion doses of the vaccine this year.

The Moderna vaccine is considered to be just as effective, but slightly less complicated to use than the BioNTech / Pfizer product. Unlike BioNTech / Pfizer product, it does not need to be cooled to minus 70 degrees. Like the BioNTech / Pfizer product, Moderna’s is also a so-called mRNA vaccine. It contains genetic information about the pathogen, from which the body produces a viral protein. The goal of vaccination is to stimulate the body to produce antibodies against this protein to intercept viruses before they enter cells and multiply.

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