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The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which regulates access to the European Union (EU) market, will hold a special meeting next Monday on the possibility of granting a conditional marketing authorization for Pfizer-BioNTech.
According to the president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, the 27 EU members aim to launch a vaccination campaign on the same day to demonstrate the unity of the bloc.
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Earlier this week, it was announced that the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arriving in Lithuania would consist of 9,750 doses.
Because two doses per person are needed, up to 5,000 people will be vaccinated. people. On Monday, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys LRT said he did not know when another batch of vaccines would arrive in Lithuania.
The Latvian State Medicines Agency announces that by the beginning of January, the country will reach 12,000. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, which will be enough to vaccinate 6,000 people.
It is true that if EVA advances the meeting a week before, the vaccines can be delivered on December 25 and 26, not in early January.
Marisa Jesse, a spokeswoman for the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, told the public broadcaster on Tuesday that the exact number of the first batch of vaccines is not yet clear.
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According to her, it was initially planned to deliver 10,000. vaccines, but Tallinn was not satisfied with that amount. Currently, 40 thousand. Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Shipments.
The UK started vaccinating people last week and vaccination started in the US this week.
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