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Sweden’s vaccine coordinator Richard Bergström tells DN that four million doses of vaccine must have arrived in Sweden during the first three months of the year. This means that a large part of the 2.6 million priority people in the country can be vaccinated before Easter.
But vaccination poses a great logistical challenge. Several different types of vaccines are expected to work in different ways and require different handling. It is still unknown exactly when the vaccine will arrive, in what quantity and of what type. Various actors will participate, such as regions, municipalities and private care providers.
In order for the regions to maintain order, the information must be registered and registered in the national immunization registry.
– We will reach a point where private actors will vaccinate. Then we must be able to follow it, then the registry will be crucial to know how much population is vaccinated, says Andreas Delphin, coordinator of the Kalmar region.
– The problem is that we are in the middle of a phase where the current system will be phased out and replaced with a newer variant. It’s a shame it’s right now.
Most of Sweden Regions use the Svevac system to record vaccine data. The system was developed by the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in 2005 and has since been taken over by Inera, a company owned by the municipalities and regions of Sweden.
But at the same time that the pandemic has swept through Sweden, Inera has begun the decommissioning of Svevac. The decision was made by the company and its owners at the end of 2018 and the liquidation has already begun. Since May, there are no new care providers connected to the system, and in September of next year it will no longer be possible to use it.
Yvonne Edenholm, Inera’s press officer, confirms that Svevac will be liquidated, but says a dialogue with the regions is underway.
– Due to the current situation, we are now investigating their need to expand the use of Svevac, he says, adding that the company is investigating whether they can support regions in vaccination in other ways.
Will the existing system be usable in 2021?
– Since the investigation is ongoing, it is difficult at this point to say what it could mean.
Inera has not developed an alternative to Svevac, but there are other players in the market that regions could use.
The Government has commissioned the Swedish Public Health Agency to create technical possibilities for registering covid-19 vaccines in the national vaccination registry. That assignment must be notified no later than March 15, 2021. At that time, the vaccinations are expected to have lasted at least two months.
