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The Health Ministry has decided that the first vaccine will be administered in a nursing home in Oslo on Sunday, while the ordinary vaccination will start on Monday.
In the first instance, it is the residents of nursing homes who should be vaccinated. In addition to Oslo, Stange, Hamar, Ringsaker, Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad and Hvaler receive doses of vaccine from the first delivery. They start the vaccination on Monday.
The first 10,000 doses of vaccine arrived in Norway on December 26 and are distributed to about 5,000 people, who will receive one dose now and one dose in three weeks, reports the Ministry of Health and Health Services.
– We are very happy that the vaccine is in place and that we can now start vaccinating in Norway, Deputy Health Director Espen Rostrup Nakstad tells NTB.
Came saturday morning
On Saturday morning the truck arrived with the first doses from the Ullevål hospital in Oslo. 9,750 doses of the vaccine, developed by Pfizer and Biontech, will now be distributed to seven municipalities in eastern Norway.
– This is a very important day for Norway and I am glad that we received the vaccine, FHI Director Camilla Stoltenberg told NTB on Saturday morning.
– It’s a great day we’ve been waiting for since it started a year ago, he added.
– Very good to see
Prime Minister Erna Solberg also says it is “very good” to see that the first vaccines have reached Norway safely.
– This day we have been waiting for a long time. Now the great and long work of vaccinating people begins so that we can slowly but surely get back to everyday life, says Solberg.
Because the vaccine is given in two doses a few weeks apart, only half of the vaccines are sent at the same time before the second dose is sent a few weeks later.
The vaccine must be given in two doses at 21-day intervals to be fully effective. Pfizer studies show that the effect after the first dose is around 52 percent. When you have taken the second dose, it increases to 95 percent.
