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Sweden also plans vaccinations for nursing home residents and staff next month.
Belgium and Sweden have announced plans for vaccination against the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), which targets nursing home residents and employees first.
On the 4th (local time), according to the AP and Bloomberg News, the previous day the Belgian government unveiled a strategy that includes a step-by-step vaccination schedule and classification, predicting that vaccination will begin early next month.
Residents and staff at nursing home facilities receive the vaccine first, followed by hospitals and front-line medical staff.
Subsequently, the vaccines will be administered by order of hospital personnel, citizens over 65 years of age and 45 to 65 years with underlying diseases.
In the first phase, the Belgian government plans to inoculate 300,000 people with a vaccine developed jointly by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German Bioentech.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is responsible for the approval process for the Corona 19 vaccine in the EU, said on the 1st of last month whether it would temporarily approve the Pfizer-Bioentech vaccine, and on the 12th of next month for the vaccine. from the American pharmaceutical company Modena. I’ll decide until I say so.
Even if vaccination is started, all Belgian residents, with a population of approximately 11.5 million, will take some time to receive the vaccine.
The head of the Belgian Vaccination Working Group explained that the plan means that many citizens will not be vaccinated before next summer.
The Swedish government also said that if the EU authorities approve the use of the vaccine, it will start small-scale vaccination next month.
The elderly and those employed in nursing homes are the top priority targets for vaccination, and the number is estimated at 570,000.
Immunizations will then be administered on the orders of medical workers, citizens age 70 and older, and other high-risk citizens.
The Swedish government predicts that around 2 million people will be vaccinated by the end of March.
Sweden’s population is about 10 million.
/ yunhap news
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