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Rome, December 18, 2020 – There are fewer and fewer days to European Vaccine Day, programmed for December 27, and Italy is also preparing for the arrival of the first doses of the vaccine against Covid-19.
The expected delivery date is Dec 26 when the authorization of theMother, the European Medicines Agency, whose vaccine evaluation has been brought forward to December 21. They will be 9,750 the dose Pfizer-Biontech awaits the Peninsula, as announced by the commissioner for the Covid emergency, Domenico Arcuri, during the government-regions meeting.
The dose tranche will reach the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani of Rome, the national reference center for infectious diseases, and from there the doses will be distributed to the administration points already identified in the different regions, to ensure that, symbolically, December 27th, on the day of European Vaccine Day, start vaccinating against Covid-19 also in all Italian regions at the same time.
In any case, the first to be vaccinated will be the doctors, belonging to the health personnel, staff and guests of the RSA.
Vaccine costs
But how much does a vaccine dose cost? European Union countries will pay 12 euros per dose of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer / BioNTech and $ 18 a dose for Moderna’s.
These prices were reported by the flamenco newspaper ‘The latest news‘, who posted a screenshot of a tweet from the Belgian budget secretary Eva from Bleeker that, however, would have spread the prices on the web By mistake. The undersecretary quickly deleted the tweet, but the editorial staff of the Hln newspaper had already taken steps to save and capture the communication and then publish the content.
For the MEP Peter liese (CDU Germany), head of health of the Ppe group, the prices reported in the tweet published by Hln are ‘realistic’. According to the table, the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine is the cheapest (1.78 euros per dose). For Curevac it is 10 euros per dose, for Sanofi / Gsk 7.56 euros per dose, for Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) 8.5 dollars per dose.
Until now, prices have been kept confidential, mainly as the Commission is still negotiating a contract with Novavax.
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