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The first doses of the drug will be administered on December 27, 28 and 29 throughout the EU. What changes between country and country?
by Alb.Ma.
The first doses of the drug will be administered on December 27, 28 and 29 throughout the EU. What changes between country and country?
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Edith Kwoizalla, a 101-year-old guest from a nursing home in Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt), will make her mark in Germany in 2020. On December 26, she became the first German patient to receive a dose of the Covid vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontech, one day before the three days a indicated by the European Commission: the Vaccination Days of December 27, 28 and 29, with the green light for the distribution of the doses reserved by the EU executive to “vaccinate Europe” against the pandemic.
Although Brussels has diluted the event in 72 hours, most EU countries will officially start injections on the symbolic date of December 27. This is also the case in Italy, where the first dose reservations arrived on December 26 from Belgium at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. But how exactly days of vaccination coordinated by the EU?
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The plan: (at least) 200 million doses by 2021
On December 21, the European Commission gave the green light to the drug developed by US-based Pfizer and German Biontech, making it the first authorized anti-Covid vaccine in the EU. The European Medicines Agency (European Medicines Agency, or Ema) has accelerated the green light to the vaccine after the ok collected by the drug in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
Deliveries of the vaccine began throughout Europe on December 26, while the following three days (December 27, 28, 29) coincide with the start of administration in the different EU countries. The first tranches of drugs will be reserved for “priority” groups, identified by individual countries, and then continue with weekly vaccinations in 2021. Pfizer and Biontech will deliver a first stock of 12.5 million doses by the end of the year, the equivalent of just over 4% of 300 million vaccines bought in Brussels.
The Commission’s goal is to distribute the first 200 million doses by September next year, possibly triggering the additional 100 million dose quota. The Commission also obtained 400 million doses of AstraZeneca, 300 million doses of Sanofi-GSK, 400 million doses of Johnson and Johnson, 405 million doses of CureVac, and 160 million doses of Moderna.
