The Danish vaccine rollout was presented at a press conference at the Ministry of Health and the Elderly.
Denmark has added a ticket for 2.6 million extra doses of the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech.
This is stated by Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke (S) at a press conference on Wednesday, where the “first roll” of Danish rollout of the vaccine against coronavirus was presented.
The first delivery of vaccines will arrive in the country on December 26 and consist of 9750 vaccine doses – enough to vaccinate more than 5000 Danes.
Then come 38,025 doses the week after, and in the weeks that follow, there will be 47,775 vaccine doses per week until March 2021.
The 2.6 million extra vaccines that Denmark has booked with Pfizer / BioNTech are expected to arrive either at the end of the first quarter or the beginning of the second quarter next year, stated the director of the Danish Medicines Agency, Thomas Senderovitz.
First plug 27 December
The five regions begin vaccination on Dec. 27 at 9 p.m.
First in line are citizens at a number of care centers and staff in the same place, as well as frontline staff at the hospitals’ covid isolation wards and intensive care units. But it will be a rollout across the country, it sounded from the minister.
– It will happen almost simultaneously in different places in Denmark, says Magnus Heunicke.
Residents of five nursing homes around the country are vaccinated first in Denmark.
The five nursing homes are Kærbo in Ishøj, Blomstergården in Slagelse, Birkebo in Aalborg, Ankersgade in Aarhus and Ældrecenter Øst in Odense.
Same vaccine as others have approved
The vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech has been tested in clinical trials with 36,000 participants, and has, according to Thomas Senderovitz, undergone a “very thorough” evaluation.
