Filenews 22 December 2020
The Ministry of Health welcomes yesterday's approval by the European Medicines Agency and the European Commission for the marketing of the vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech in the Member States of the European Union. This development is the result of the initiative favourable to all Member States by the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakidou, which ensured that all members of the Union had access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Following yesterday's developments and the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the distribution of vaccines in the States begins immediately. In Cyprus the first batch is expected to be delivered on 26 December 2020, and according to the plan, vaccinations will start on 27 December 2020.
On the basis of the timetable given by the manufacturer and the European Commission, vaccines will be delivered in instalments on a weekly basis and it is estimated that Cyprus will receive in the first quarter of 2021 approximately 28% of the total quantity ordered and 86% of the expected quantity of vaccines as indicated by the Commission on the basis of the agreement for the quarter mentioned.
Given the hierarchy of priority population groups for vaccination, the first batches of vaccines will vaccinate approximately 8,000 priority staff and residents in nursing homes and health professionals at the reference hospital.
Source: eyenews
