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“All EU member states will start getting vaccinated against it coronavirus The same day”said the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaking in plenary European Parliament, together with the President of the European Council Charles Michel and the Michael roth German Minister for European Affairs and representative of the Presidency of the Council of the EU.
At the same time, he expressed conviction of that the first vaccine will be approved in a week against Covid-19 in the European Union and stated that the Commission had managed to secure it vaccine dose for all European citizens.
“Eventually, within a week, the first vaccine will be approved, so vaccines can start right away … it’s a huge undertaking.”, statementwith the president of the commission before the European Parliament.
“Let’s start this vaccination campaign as soon as possible, all twenty-seven together, starting on the same day.”he added.
However, the President of the European Commission underlined what to deliver the vaccine 70% of citizens should be vaccinated, which means that the risks will remain for a long time.
For his part, the president Charles Michel, inform MEPs of the Results of the last European Council, said on the Agreement on the multiannual financial framework (the seven-year EU budget) and the EU recovery mechanism of 1.8 trillion. Speaking of Turkey, he noted that the 27 agreed to discuss the sanctions but at the same time there is room for a positive agenda and now it is up to Turkey to continue provoking.
Operation “Freedom” of our country and the feverish preparations for vaccination
In Greece, preparations by state authorities to the beginning of FREEDOM, the national vaccination campaign against the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus. As Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said yesterday, in Parliament the name ELEFTHERIA was chosen in Parliament for the national vaccination campaign to signal its objective, which is to recover our lives, to get rid of the coronavirus.
In fact, as THEMA revealed last Sunday, the national vaccination campaign will be strengthened with the significant strengths of pharmacists and individuals, physicians and diagnostic centers, Primary Health Care (PHC), who will be mobilized together with health professionals from the SEN. Together they will help in the important health operation to protect the Greek population against the coronavirus and covid-19 infection.
The goal is to build one high wall of immunity, that is, be vaccinated 60-70% of the population. The duration of the campaign, which will start as soon as possible EU distributes Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in its member states, it is expected to be completed in spring. During all this time and while the wall of immunity is being “built”, experts emphasize that it is important that all protection measures against the coronavirus are observed by the public.
Due to the epidemic and the COVID-19 disease, the PHC of our country acquires official vaccination centers, within the Health Centers and other structures, such as regional clinics. In 1,018 structures (Health Centers, Regional Clinics) that are distributed nationwide so that no part of the country is exposed, from large urban centers to remote inaccessible areas, citizens will be vaccinated.
The prerequisites for its operation are the existence of a separate space, that is, a room in which all hygiene and safety regulations will be observed and will have a special room for the maintenance of vaccines.
Who will be vaccinated first
However, the citizens, older people and people belonging to vulnerable groups regardless of age, it will be included in the second phase of the vaccination campaign. The National Committee on Vaccination for Children and Adults meets regularly and reviews all available scientific evidence from clinical trials. As mentioned the day before yesterday by the professor of Pediatrics, Mrs. Vana PapaevangelouAt this stage, those who have become ill, pregnant women and children under 16 years of age will not be vaccinated.
Top priority is given to healthcare professionals, healthcare professionals, employees of all hospitals and healthcare structures, public and private. The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) has already stated in a report thatι Health workers and, in particular, those who are at the forefront of the management of suspected and positive cases of COVID-19 should be among the first population groups to be vaccinated to ensure their protection against SARS-CoV-2 and the proper functioning of the System. . Health.
This will be followed by people living in closed structures (nursing homes, chronic disease clinics, prisons, etc.). Special mobile teams of medical personnel will be in charge of vaccinating people living in closed structures, as well as those who face objective mobility difficulties.
How the vaccination will be carried out
The Ministry of Health prepares a special planning for the way in which citizens will be vaccinated. With a “vehicle” a large information and public awareness campaign, with the participation of doctors, pharmacists and traditional and digital media For the individual and collective benefits of immunization, citizens will be invited to express their interest.
Scientists and the Prime Minister himself, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Minister of Health will participate in the mobilization of the country’s population. K. Vassilis Kikilias but also the head of the Expert Committee of the Ministry of Health for the new coronavirus, Professor Sotiris Tsiodras, among others, since he is expected to be among the first to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease.
Citizens will be able to make an appointment by phone or through an online platform.
Pharmacies in the first phase, immediate vaccination with the temporary vaccine available from the Pfizer / BioNTech companies, will play a key role in scheduling citizen appointments. This is a difficult field as no walk-in vaccinations will be given and it is also important that you do not miss any doses of the long-awaited vaccine. The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is packaged in packages of five (only) doses, which means that once each batch is thawed and opened as a package, it must be administered to an equal number of citizens within a few hours.
Particularly, Pharmacists will be able to make appointments for citizens, through the electronic platform or by telephone, in vaccination centers. The Ministry of Digital Government opens three channels for citizen access to the coronavirus vaccination planning: the intangible prescription, the emvolio.gov.gr platform that will be available in a few days at gov.gr and through a call center.
The approx. 850,000 enrolled in the intangible prescription They will receive a message on their mobile phone with the date and time of the appointment, if based on their AMKA – and essentially their medical history – it is judged that they belong to the population groups that have priority in vaccination against the coronavirus and will be able to accept the appointment by replying to the corresponding SMS or email.
However, those citizens who seek access through other channels may do so through pharmacists, who will act as cohesive links in this great process. It is estimated that the elderly and other groups of the population will be trusted and will be attended mainly by pharmacists, with the latter, of course, giving the “present” to the state again dynamically, as they did a year ago, when they began the free distribution of cancer drugs first and then dozens of other drugs intended for patients with serious health problems and that were covered only by EOPYY pharmacies.
Through the emvolio.gov.gr platform and by writing AMKA they will know, for example, if the vaccination of the citizen has been planned or they will be able to make the programming by receiving all the information and the relevant referral directly in digital form. Citizens will also be able to contact their pharmacists to contact the designated call center to express interest and to make an appointment based on their place of residence.
Vaccination record
Thanks to this new vaccination method, it will be possible to register all those vaccinated against the new coronavirus in the Special Registry that has been active since this year and currently registers people vaccinated against seasonal flu and pneumococcus. Through the Registry, where in addition to the personal data of each person, data will be completed, such as the date on which the first installment was received, the time of the second installment will be calculated. Thus, the citizen will receive a notification either via sms or via e-mail about when he must receive the second dose so that his vaccination is considered complete.
How many quotas will Greece receive and when will they arrive in the country?
As is well known, the European Commission has already agreed for some time to supply vaccine doses from all pharmaceutical companies that are expected to apply for a license from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA). .
Therefore, the European Union will make available to its 27 member states, 300 million doses of AstraZeneca and 100 million additional doses of the same company in the second phase, Pfizer / BioNTech 200 million doses and an additional 100 million in the second year, from Modern 80 million doses and an additional 80 million. in the second stage, from Johnson & Johnson 200 million doses and another 200 million, while from Sanofi / GSK 300 million doses and CureVac 225 million doses.
The availability of doses by country will be made according to population criteria and according to the order in which the vaccines are licensed.
Greece is expected to receive 1,000,000 doses of the vaccine in early 2021, corresponding to the vaccination of 500,000 citizens. Although Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis affirmed this Friday during the meeting on the vaccination strategy against the new coronavirus, our country will receive a total of 25,000,000 doses of vaccines based on the pre-purchase contracts signed by the European Union with the aforementioned. pharmaceutical companies to enable vaccination of the entire population of the country.
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