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The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine arrived in Hungary, the image published by MTI shows that the truck transporting the vaccine will have police control at the Hegyeshalom border crossing.
The vaccine, manufactured in Puurs, Belgium, the first in Europe to be approved, is delivered to domestic vaccination points by police insurance. The first shipment contains 9,750 doses of vaccine, allowing 4,875 health workers to be vaccinated.
As the Index previously wrote, the vaccine is the first to arrive at South Pest Cetrum Hospital. Vaccination of healthcare workers will begin on Sunday.
Vaccines that require minus 70 degrees of cooling come in special boxes with a tracker and a temperature sensor. The first shipment contains 9,750 doses of vaccine, which allows the vaccination of 4,875 health workers, since a person must receive two vaccines 21 days apart.
The first shipment of vaccine will be delivered to five designated hospital vaccines:
first to South Pest Central Hospital,
the same day to the National Institute of Early Pneumology,
to the Semmelweis University Clinic,
to the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Hospital in Nyíregyháza
and the Gyula Kenézy University Hospital of the University of Debrecen.
The first shipment will be followed by newer shipments in the coming weeks and it will continue to vaccinate healthcare workers for several weeks at the same rate.
In the first half of 2021, pharmaceutical authorities are expected to authorize new vaccines, and then additional vaccines may arrive in Hungary to begin mass vaccination of the population.
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