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SVINESUND (VG) Early in the morning on Christmas Day, the car containing the valuable doses of the vaccine crossed the Svinesund customs station.
The truck contains 9,750 doses of the corona vaccine, which will be distributed to seven municipalities in eastern Norway this Christmas. The first plug is placed on Sunday.
The VG border photographer says the vaccine car crossed the border just before 07:00 on Saturday morning, escorted by another car. The car was taken to a garage at the Svinesund customs station before continuing to Oslo.
The vaccine car arrived at the Ullevål hospital shortly after 9 am.
The distribution regime is strict, and it is a secret where the cold rooms are for security reasons. The cars have been driven from the Pfizer factory in Puurs, Belgium.
CROSSED THE BORDER: The car with the vaccine doses has crossed the border into Norway. The press is present at Ullevål hospital.
Pfizer itself delivers vaccine doses to cold rooms in different parts of the country in specially manufactured boxes. This is because they must maintain a temperature of minus 70 degrees.
Norway will receive approx. 40,000 doses.
In total, municipalities have been informed that half, just over 17,000 doses, can be sent to them in the first week.
Those who receive the Pfizer vaccine should receive a dose of two after 21 days. But municipalities cannot have both doses delivered to a citizen at the same time – the Pfizer vaccine has a short shelf life and only lasts for five days after thawing to ship to municipalities. In central cold rooms, the doses are maintained for six months.
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– Deliveries throughout the new year will arrive weekly. In the first three weeks, delivery to the municipalities will be less, because they only have to vaccinate the first dose. However, starting from week four, it will ship around double, because then you can also start by setting dose two, Geir Bukholm at FHI explained to VG earlier this week.
Read all about the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine and the other five vaccines that are relevant to Norway in the special VG vaccineand check where you are in the vaccine queue when taking this test.
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