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No compromises when it comes to vaccination approval: BAG VP Nora Kronig plays it safe
In Switzerland they will start vaccinating people at risk in the first half of 2021. There are no compromises when it comes to approval, says Nora Kronig, deputy director of BAG.
BAG will not compromise safety by approving a corona vaccine. Here’s what BAG deputy director Nora Kronig said in an interview with the “Walliser Bote” published on Saturday. “We will not bring a vaccine to Switzerland that is not approved and recommended,” he said in an interview.
Kronig expects vaccinations to begin in the first half of 2021. “There are a huge number of stages between a good idea to produce a vaccine and when you can actually vaccinate,” he said in an interview.
“The safety of the population is not negotiable”: Nora Kronig, deputy director of the Federal Office of Public Health. Image: keystone
FOPH is not only in contact with manufacturing companies, but also with the licensing authority Swissmedic, the Federal Commission for Vaccination Affairs, the military and the cantons.
Skepticism about accelerated pace announced abroad
Once the vaccine is there, it will go to people in the risk group first, Kronig says. The vaccination campaign will last several months. “The 4.5 million cans will not be available from day one,” he said.
On Friday, another BAG representative, Virginie Masserey, had already spoken out on the question of when the vaccine would arrive. The Head of Infection Control indicated that the Swiss authorities were not delaying the preparation of the vaccination campaign than their foreign counterparts, but were simply communicating differently.
On statement by German Health Minister Jens Spahn that approval of the vaccination will come in December, Masserey commented with the words: “We’ll see.” (bzbasel.ch/wap)
