5 hours agoKosovo, pending about 10,000 doses of vaccine against COVID-19
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)About 10,000 doses of the coronary vaccine, produced by the AstraZeneca company and Oxford University, are expected to arrive in Kosovo in the coming days, said Isme Humolli, professional emergency officer at the World Health Organisation (OBSH) in Kosovo. According to her, this will be the first consignment container of vaccines against coronary, [...]
According to her, this will be the first container of anti-coronvirus vaccines, via WHO programme COVAX.
We are hoping that the first contingent will be 9,600 doses. The idea is just to start coming, because when the arrival starts, they come in a certain period of time and we don't believe in it”, Hummolli said.
Kosovo still remains the only country in the region, which has failed to provide any kind of anti-COVID-19 vaccine, which causes the virus.
AstraZenecya and Oxford vaccine, Kosovo is expected to receive it for free through the World Health Organization programme, COVAX, which aims to distribute vaccines to poor countries.
Hummol says that for the time being, no one can give any precise date when vaccines will arrive, as she explains, everything depends on the manufacturer, who is unable to produce the required amount.
The match with the manufacturer has long been impossible. So we're trying to find alternative ways and we can get in touch with it, hoping in the COVAX mechanism and their support. I'm hoping we're at the end of the wait, and the vaccines are available”, Hummolli said.
According to a report released earlier this month, Kosovo will receive 100800 doses of this vaccine.
However, Hummolli thinks that Kosovo, compared to the more developed countries, has been delayed in terms of pledging financial means to companies producing vaccine insurance outside the COVAX programme.
Developed “The developed states have pledged means, the moment the vaccine production started. [We] haven't done this, because we're very relying on the COVAX mechanism”, Humolli said.
We didn't even expect to have any such delays”, there's one of them.
In addition to vaccines from COVAX, the incumbent Health Ministry has announced that it has received confirmation from the American company Pfizer for the security of 535,000 anti-coronobitus vaccines.
However, Pfizer Company/ BioNtech said about REL is still under discussion with Kosovo's incumbent government for its vaccine supply.
REL has tried to get a response from Kosovo's incumbent government on this issue, but its officials have not responded.
Kosovo Government acting Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti has indicated on Friday that there has been a meeting with incumbent Health Minister Avdullah Zemaj, with representatives of the Kosovo National Public Health Institute and the Kosovo University Hospital Clinic Service, to assess the epidemiological situation with the COVID-19 in Kosovo, since in the last two weeks it has been marked in the number of infected.
But there was no mention of a vaccine discussion there.
Otherwise, health authorities have said they have now made all preparations for the beginning of the vaccine.
U office chief NICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) in Kosovo, Murat Sahin through a post in his account on the social Twitter network, has said that the first shipment of syringes has arrived in Kosovo, which will be used for the vaccine against COVID-19.
On Friday alone, health authorities in Kosovo have recorded 445 cases of coronarys, following testing 2,570 samples in public and private institutions.
According to the National Institute of Public Health in Kosovo (IKSHPK), five victims were registered on February 26th.
