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Helsingborg will receive the first Scanian doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The frail elderly in several selected households should receive syringes already during the holidays.
More than 400 doses of vaccines arrive as Christmas gifts in Helsingborg during the holidays. The idea is to put the extensive vaccination apparatus in motion by testing on a smaller scale several selected specialty lodgings in Helsingborg.
– This gives us the opportunity to ensure that all vaccination-related flows are working properly so that we can carry out a safe and secure vaccination, says Maria Landgren, head of pharmaceuticals and one of the two vaccine coordinators at the Skåne region in a press release.
Helsingborg has been badly affected by the infection, which is one of the reasons the city was chosen. Another is that handling the vaccine requires short delivery times. The accommodation in question is close to each other and this means short transport times.
The vaccine may be administered to both residents and staff, and will be administered by primary care and nurses of the municipality. There will be a primary care physician on site. The Pfizer / Biontech vaccine is relevant and is administered in two doses with an interval of at least three weeks.
Starting with the elderly in special housing is based on the order of prioritization of the Public Health Agency. The time when vaccination can start on a larger scale and also to other groups depends on when the vaccine arrives in Sweden and how many doses arrive.
– According to advance notices we have received from the Swedish Public Health Agency, additional doses of vaccines will arrive in Skåne by the end of the year. This means we can gradually scale up the vaccine effort so that an additional 6,500 people from the priority group can participate in the vaccine before the end of the year, says Per Hagstam, assistant infection control physician and vaccine coordinator in the Skåne Region in a Press release.
