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The vaccination schedule against him. coronavirus and how it will evolve national vaccination plan set on Monday the president of the National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou and the Secretary General of Primary Health Care, Marios Themistocleous during the periodic information session of citizens by the Ministry of Health.
After the formal approval by the European Medicines Agency of vaccine of Pfizer and BioNTechFrom today and every Monday at 6:00 p.m., the briefing of the accredited authors on the National Plan for Vaccine Coverage for the coronavirus will take place at the Ministry of Health, from
The decision that paves the way for mass vaccination both in the country and the European Union as a whole, it was taken after a closed-door meeting on Monday, with the proposal of the European Medicines Agency The vaccine should be given to people over the age of 16, with a few exceptions.
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“Vaccines have had the most significant impact on human health and quality of life. The WHO estimates that each year between 2 and 3 million lives are saved. The vaccine gives hope”, stressed the Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics of the EKPA and president of the National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou, starting the information session on the planning of the vaccination process against covid-19, which begins on December 27 in five hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki.
Referring to the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, which received the “green light” from the EMA on Monday, he explained that the mRNA does not carry the virus and has no effect on the cell’s DNA, noting:
“The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is highly safe, produces a large amount of antibodies, and is more than 94% effective.
Who has priority over vaccination against coronavirus?
According to Ms Theodoridou, the first group to be vaccinated will be healthcare workers who are constantly exposed to the coronavirus. They will be followed by the elderly who will be housed in accommodation structures.
Soon after, people over the age of 85 will be vaccinated.
“When it’s time to get vaccinated, that doesn’t mean we’ve solved the problem. We must continue to keep our distance and wear masks. “Yes to optimism, no to complacency,” said Ms Theodoridou.
Themistocleous for Operation “Freedom”
There are already five areas specially designed for cold storage of vaccines, the secretary general said. Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous.
According to Mr. Themistokleous, the distribution of vaccines will be done with the assistance of the Ministry of National Defense, while the vaccination process for citizens will be defined by the Ministry of Digital Government.
Furthermore, the responsibility for the protection and custody of the vaccines will be assumed by the Ministry of Civil Protection in cooperation with the General Secretariat of Civil Protection.
The vaccination schedule.
On December 26 we will receive the first 9,750 installments. The first vaccinations will take place on 12/27 at the Attica referral hospitals. On 12/28, the vaccines will be distributed at the Larissa University Hospital, the Ioannina University Hospital, the AHEPA in Thessaloniki and the Rio University Hospital (Patras), so that vaccinations of health workers can begin on 12/29.
Until December 30 we will unexpectedly receive the first large batch of 83,850 doses of Pfizer / BioNTech. The deliveries of the specific vaccines that correspond to our population, based on the Central European agreement, will be delivered to us at the end of January 2021 429,000 doses and another 333,450 doses at the end of February.
Until the end of March we will have received a total of 1,265,550 doses of the vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech alone. These doses will be added, if approved in January, doses of both the Moderna vaccine and the AstraZeneca equivalent.
The distribution of the doses will be carried out under the direction of the National Vaccination Committee.
The vaccination process will be carried out in two ways:
- From the site emvolio.gov.gr (the site starts operating on Tuesday 12/22/2020)
- And from physical points (for example, by appointment in pharmacies)
As Themistocleous said, the dating platform is expected to open in second ten days of January.
EODY: 85 deaths, 505 intubated and 526 new cases in the last 24 hours
EODY announced on Monday 526 new cases of the new virus in the country, of which 14 were identified after controls at the gates of the country. The total number of cases is 131,597, of which the 52.5% mens.
Of the total cases, 5,229 (4.0%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 38,481 (29.2%) are related to a known case.
At the same time, 505 of our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 67 years. 164 (32.5%) are women and the rest are men. 77.4% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 812 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 85 more registered deaths and 4,257 deaths in total in the country. 1,717 (40.3%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our dying fellow citizens was 79 years and 95.7% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
