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The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was communicated to eight European countries than the next vaccine delivery against COVID-19 will suffer a slight delay due to loading and shipping problems encountered at their facilities in Puurs in Belgium. For himItaly However, everything happens regularly and the second load of 450 thousand doses of the drug will arrive in our country for Tuesday. It is not excluded that there may be gods delays on delivery in some Regions, however linked to bad weather what could hinder achievement quickly some territories.
Pfizer, which will deliver the vaccines in 300 points scattered throughout Italy has therefore guaranteed, asAnsa, which for Italy no delay and the delivery schedule will go ahead as planned. The same cannot be said for the Spain. In fact, the Government of Madrid explained this morning that Pfizer-Spain had informed it “that the delivery of the shipment of vaccines in the country and postponed from Monday to Tuesday“.
Apart from Spain, it was not reported which other countries are victim of delays. According to the pharmaceutical company, “the situation is already resolved”, although “the next delivery of vaccines will be delayed for a few hours and will arrive in Spain on Tuesday, December 29, for the continuation of the vaccination throughout the national territory. First 9,750 doses The Pfizer-BionTech vaccine arrives in Spain Saturday from Belgium in two containers, the same ones that have been sent to each member state of the European Union for this “before symbolic deliveryAs explained this Sunday by the CEO of Pfizer Spain, Sergio Rodriguez. This first delivery of vaccines will be expanded from Tuesday with another 350 thousand doses, an amount that will be distributed to Spain every Monday for the next 12 weeks up to a total of 4.5 million.
Meanwhile, the German Health Minister, Jens spahn, explained that in Germany the production centers of the Biontech-Pfizer vaccine. “We are working together with Biontech-Pfizer, so that there can be additional centers Marburg and in Assia“He explained to Zdf, the second national public network. Biontech has acquired the Marburg production center from Novartis. And according to the German company now they will only be necessary small adjustments to start here with the production of the anticovid vaccine.
The case of the first doses – This first hitch in deliveries continues in controversy precisely because of the number of doses distributed in the different Member States of the European Union to Vaccine day, the first day of the vaccination campaign. The 9,750 symbolic doses should have arrived in all the states, as happened in Spain but also in Italy. In some countries, including the France but above all the GermanyHowever, an advance of the doses scheduled for the week started today was also provided. Thus, each German Länder found its 9,750 doses, for a total of approximately 150 thousand doses.
Hope’s clarification – On Sunday night came the explanation from the commissioner Domenico Arcuri: Berlin “had 11mila dosi. The 150 thousand that were delivered to him are part of the subsequent aid stations that will arrive in our country as of December 28. There is no discrimination“. A clarification also provided by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, who in his interview with The impression in today’s newsstands we talk about “a nonsense“.” Let’s clarify a crucial point. There is only one vaccine purchase contract, signed by European Comission on behalf of the entire Union ”, Speranza explains. Therefore, the distribution of doses between the different Member States is’ managed by the Commission itself on the basis of number of inhabitants“Our part is 13.45% of the total of all vaccines that the EU has bought. In the immediate future, however, the minister added, “the distribution between individual states You can change based on completely random factors: the day the communication is made, the distance from the factories. Those Pfizers are a Brussels, then in Germany they arrive before us. But the portion of the dose that is up to each country is fixed, by contract ”. So, Speranza concludes, “there are those who are better and buy more and those who are in short supply and buy less. When fully operational, it’s up to us 470 thousand doses per week and those will be “.
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