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Greece will receive another 83,850 doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine tomorrow Tuesday, December 29.
The doses of the vaccine will arrive with a special flight, which is expected to land at the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” at 08:15, according to relevant information from the Ministry of Health.
Speaking about today’s briefing on the progress of the vaccination plan, Mr. Themistocleous said: “On December 26, Greece received 9,700 doses, the same as the rest of the EU countries, regardless of the population of each country “, adding that its storage was carried out in a central point in Attica in conditions of” deep freezing “. From there, the distribution was carried out in the 5 hospitals in Attica and “today the distribution was carried out in the 4 hospitals in the region.”
“Until 4:00 pm, 471 people were vaccinated today in the 5 reference hospitals in Athens,” said Mr. Themistokleous, while a case of “non-serious allergic reaction was reported, which was successfully treated,” reported by the Secretary General, faithful to the commitment he has made to “detail”. information with absolute transparency “.
On January 4, the vaccination of health workers begins
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At the same time, as it became known, next week, on January 4, the general vaccination of health workers will begin. The first dose of vaccination of healthcare workers, guests and employees in nursing homes, chronic care units and rehabilitation centers is expected to be completed by January 20.
Mr. Themistocleous explained that the platform for the citizen to make an appointment will open at least a week before.
Vaccines will continue in Athens hospitals on Tuesday, while vaccine dosing at 4 hospitals in the region, that is the University of Larissa, AHEPA in Thessaloniki, University of Ioannina and University of Patras.
The first large batch of Pfizer vaccines
Also, “tomorrow, December 29, we will receive the first large batch from Pfizer, 83,850 doses, which will be distributed to the 5 central storage points, so that from there the distribution can be made to the hospital vaccination centers ”, Mr. Themistokleous underlined.
“Every week the next deliveries of Pfizer vaccines that correspond to our population will follow, and according to the Central European agreement they will be delivered to us 419,250 installments at the end of January and 333,450 installments at the end of February. By the end of March, we will have received from Pfizer 1,255,800 doses “And this figure is likely to rise if the EU reaches an agreement on 100,000,000 additional doses,” said the Secretary General for Primary Care at the Health Ministry.
Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccine doses
To these doses will be added those of the Moderna vaccine, which is expected to be approved by the European Medicines Agency on January 6 and correspond to 240,000 installments for the first quarter of 2021.
According to planning, 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are also expected at the end of January and if you receive the necessary approval from the European Medicines Agency. Further, 800,000 doses of the vaccine from Oxford in February, 1.5 million in March and 2.2 million in April.
Additionally, the number of coronavirus vaccines will increase as approvals and deliveries from the other three companies progress. Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson and CureVac.
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