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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announces: “We have decided to take an additional 100 million doses of the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine, already in use to vaccinate Europeans. Then we will have 300 million doses of this vaccine, which It has been rated as safe and effective. More vaccines to follow! “
An initiative that reassures Italy and other European countries after the extension of the time of the Astrazeneca vaccine that should provide our country with a significant amount of vaccines for the spring campaign. “It is unlikely that the green light in Europe will come in January,” EMA (European Medicines Agency) deputy director Noel Wathion told the Belgian daily. The newspaper. AstraZeneca, which has developed its vaccine with the University of Oxford, is expected to receive approval on January 4 in the UK. But EMA, Wathion explains, “has not yet been implemented and needs more data on quality.”
The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is the one on which Italy has also focused a lot for the association of the Pomezia Irbm company, will therefore not arrive at the beginning of the year. A problem for all of Europe, of course, which has reserved 400 million doses, and for Italy in particular. Our country has a preference for 40.38 million doses (many more than those reserved for the only vaccine currently available, that of Pfizer, of which 26.92 million doses will arrive in total). But above all, in the first quarter of 2021 the AstraZeneca vaccine should have had the lion’s share: the plan has the availability of 16.1 million doses in the first three months, while the Pfizer vaccine should be distributed in 8, 7 million doses. , Curevac still under study in 2 million doses and Moderna serum, not yet approved in Europe, in 1.3 million doses.
Meanwhile, the 469,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine scheduled for today in Italy after the slowdown in transfers caused by bad weather will reach the Italian territory late in the afternoon today. The company will then proceed directly to delivery, starting tomorrow morning, at the administration sites identified by the Commissioner in accordance with the Regions ”. This was announced by the structure of the Covid Emergency Commissioner, Domenico Arcuri, specifying that “Pfizer has just communicated to the Police Stations a different schedule for the delivery of vaccines in Italy, scheduled for this week by the contract signed with the European Union.” . Deliveries will also continue on December 31.
