The vaccines are leaving the Pfizer factory

The first shipment of vaccines will be of a smaller size of about 10,000 vaccine doses. The vaccine requires two plugs for full effect, so there are enough for about 5000 Danes in the first round.

Later, more doses will be sent away, and the government’s goal is to vaccinate 250,000 Danes during the first months of 2021.

It will be the country’s nursing home residents, health professionals and people in the risk group who are at the forefront of the vaccine queue.

The first Danish connectors

The date for when the first Dane gets a sting with the corona vaccine has not been officially announced.

But on Tuesday it emerged that Ishøj and Herlev will be the first municipalities to receive the vaccine in the capital area.

And on Wednesday , Jonas Egebart, who heads the regional task force that has prepared the vaccination, announced that the Capital Region of Denmark expects to start vaccinating against coronavirus in hospitals and nursing homes on 27 morning.

Approved faster than planned

The vaccine, which is initially sent in small batches of about 10,000 vaccines to each country, is produced by the American-German company Pfizer / BioNTech. It was approved by the European Medicines Agency, EMA, on 21 December.

Initially, the plan was that the vaccine approval would not take place until around the turn of the year, but as other countries – including the United States and the United Kingdom – approved and began vaccinating, the pressure on the EU increased.

Therefore, the approval date was advanced and the green light was given on 21 December.

Source: nyheder.tv2.dk