Svein (67) has been vaccinated: – He feels like a historical figure

Several European countries have already started, and at 12 o’clock on Sunday we are in the process of getting vaccinated also in Norway.

The Ellingsrudhjemmet nursing home in Oslo is the site of the first vaccine to be administered in Norway. The first person to receive the vaccine is resident Svein Andersen (67). She received the dose of the vaccine from specialist nurse Maria Golding.

He was accompanied by Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Health Minister Bent Høie and Oslo City Councilor Raymond Johansen when the syringe was placed.

– Svein, you are our first. I hope you think it’s good, and I really just want to say please, Solberg said before Svein got the vaccine.

After the vaccine dose was set, Andersen says he was very grateful that it was given priority.

– You almost feel like a historical person. It’s almost like being the first man on the moon, he said.

– It didn’t hurt. No more pain than with any other vaccine, Andersen said. When asked what was important now that the first group of Norwegians will be vaccinated, Andersen replied that he is looking forward to a visit.

– You have a lot to say that we can receive visitors again, he said.

– Victory for science

– I’m very happy. This is a great day and a great event, says Public Health Director Camilla Stoltenberg.

– Both I and the whole country hope that many more will be vaccinated in Norway and in the world. I have been waiting for this even before the pandemic broke out. Both FHI and the rest of the world have been concerned that we can achieve vaccine development that is much faster, but I didn’t think it would be that fast. This is a formidable victory for science, he says.

In the next few days, 5,000 elderly people from seven municipalities will receive the first dose of vaccine. The 146 residents of Elligsrudhjemmet will all be vaccinated in the first group of vaccines.

10,000 doses of vaccine

On Saturday the first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines arrived from the Pfizer factory in Belgium.

The vaccine truck arrived at Ullevål hospital shortly after 9 o’clock and carried just under 10,000 doses of vaccine. You have to take two doses of the vaccine, and just under 5,000 Norwegians in seven municipalities in eastern Norway will be the first in the country to be vaccinated.

Facts about the Pfizer Coronary Vaccine

• The coronary vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontech provides protection against COVID-19 in 94 percent of cases.
• The vaccine, called BNT162b2, is taken in two doses three weeks apart. It produces a full effect one week after the second dose is taken.
• The EU pays 15.50 euros (approximately 163 crowns) per dose, according to a leaked document.
• It is one of the so-called mRNA vaccines.
• It should be stored at minus 70 degrees. It only lasts five days in the refrigerator.
• It was first tested in 43,000 people in a phase 3 study.
• So far no serious side effects have been reported. However, some allergic reactions have been reported in the United States, but it is not uncommon for vaccines to cause certain side effects.
• Approved and used in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, where hundreds of thousands have already received the vaccine.
• The Pfizer vaccine received a green light from the EMA of the European Medicines Agency on Monday, December 21.
• Norway has guaranteed access through European cooperation. On Saturday the first delivery arrived.

(Sources: Norwegian Medicines Agency, NTB, BBC, AFP, AP, Reuters)

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The vaccine has been named BNT162b2 and provides protection in 94 percent of cases. Side effects include mild muscle pain and headaches. It is taken in two doses three weeks apart, and takes effect one week after the second dose is established.

Ongoing in Europe

In Sweden, Gun-Britt Johansson, 91, from the Boken nursing home in Östergötland, was the first to receive the vaccine at 8 a.m. on Sunday, SVT reports.

In Denmark, the residents of five nursing homes across the country were the first to leave, according to Ritzau.

Also in Spain, it was a resident of a nursing home who suffered the first sting. Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sánchez, 96, said she did not feel the prick.

In Norway, a resident of a nursing home in Oslo receives the first dose. In the next few days, 5,000 Norwegian elderly people will receive the vaccine.

Health workers

In the Italian capital, Rome, five doctors and nurses received the first stab wounds. Also in Poland and Romania, health workers were first in line. Nurse Alicja Jukubowska and Michaela Anghel received the first doses.

In the Czech Republic, vaccination was started by Prime Minister Andrej Babis, followed by 95-year-old war veteran Emilie Repikova.

EU countries start vaccination less than a week after the EU Medicines Agency EMA gave the green light on Monday to the vaccine from US-based Pfizer and Germany’s Biontech. The vaccine arrived in the first countries of Europe on Friday from the factory in Belgium.

Increase in infection rates

At the same time, infection rates have continued to rise in Europe. Last week, a total of 14.2 million cases of infection and 336,589 deaths related to coronary heart disease were recorded in EU and EEA countries, according to a summary by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC). The UK is not included.

Spain and Italy in particular have been hit hard by the virus. Italy has exceeded 2 million infections and 71,600 deaths, while in Spain there have been almost 1.9 million cases and 49,000 deaths, according to figures from the Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

There are also great fears that the situation will be exacerbated by the spread of the new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus, first discovered in the UK.

The mutated variant has been detected in Spain, Japan, France, Sweden and Denmark, among other places.

European unity

In a video posted on Twitter On Saturday, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, paid tribute to European unity in vaccination work.

– The vaccine is available at the same time in all EU countries. And people will start getting the vaccine in Athens, Rome, Helsinki, Sofia and other places, von der Leyen said.

However, some countries were ahead of others in setting the first doses. Both Germany, Hungary and Slovakia started vaccination in advance on Saturday.