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3 hours agoWhen does the vaccination of the Coronervirus begin? Speaking from O'S office BSH in Kosovo
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Minister of Health in Kosovo, Armend Zemaj, said he signed an official application Monday for the security of the vaccine against COVIDD-19 through the World Inoculation Alliance. Of this, according to the Health Ministry, Kosovo is expected to benefit about 360 thousand vaccines for free, while the rest intend to buy it. According to the ministry, with this amount it is expected to [...]
Of this, according to the Health Ministry, Kosovo is expected to benefit about 360 thousand vaccines for free, while the rest intend to buy it.
According to the ministry, with this amount it is expected to be first vaccinated by population groups most endangered by COVID-19, such as health workers, elderly people and chronically ill people.
But when can the vaccine process begin in Kosovo?
Emergency officer at the World Health Organization, Isme Humolli, in a conversation about the Voice of America that this process cannot begin before springtime.
“We are hoping as O By mid-March, eventually early April. The value of early beginnings is not given to the small amount of vaccines that are in production and the enormous demands that are available worldwide”, she said.
World Health Organisation officials say Kosovo faces lack of technical and professional conditions for new vaccine against COVID and that they are supporting the authorities in preparing the grounds for the start of population vaccine.
“As WHO has the technical side means we're going to do staff training on the delivery of the vaccine, for monitoring the post-vacinal impacts of the unwanted, identifying them, recording vaccines, and so on”, Humwall said.
Citizens surveyed by the Voice of America say they are willing to take the vaccine after this is recommended by domestic institutions.
On Monday, the National Institute of Public Health confirmed 519 new cases of Coronavirus and 14 victims in the last 24 hours.
World Health Organisation officials say the next three months are expected to be difficult.
“We have entered in dangerous months when the number of cases is extremely high, but also the number of cases of death, notes a slight decline in the curve of new cases, but unfortunately the death toll is very high and remains high regardless of whether there is any chronic disease or not and despite the age of”, Humolli said.
Since the Kosovo pandemic show, more than 43 thousand affected by whom 1120 have lost their lives, while over 29 thousand have been declared healed. / VOA
