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In just over a week, citizens of the member states of the European Union could receive the

first doses

of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

This was announced today by the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen.

He even went further and predicted that the specific dates will be December

27, 28 and 29

.

Days when all EU countries should start to keep up with immunization.

This means that in Spain they would arrive on the dates set by the EU to about

50 points agreed with the US laboratory

, since it is part of what is signed in the contract, as stated by sources from the Ministry of Health.

They would do it

guarded with security measures

and from there to the 13,000 vaccination centers among all the autonomous communities, they would do it through the normal pharmaceutical distribution channels, but without losing custody of security by the forces and security of the state , which would be in charge of a device coordinated from the Ministry of the Interior.

The

autonomous communities are in charge of the final step

: the arrival to the arm of the citizen.

According to Health, some

freezers

are being prepared

to be able to keep the vaccine at minus 70 degrees, but they are not yet defined.

In the meetings held between the autonomies, from Health it is pointed out that the idea is that they also

start all in a homogeneous way

.

Even without specific data on doses and number of batches released by the pharmaceutical company after the approval of Europe, the member countries, such as Spain, have already

defined the priority groups for those first doses

.

Health ensures that until these are vaccinated, the next will not be given.

In addition, he adds that the number of doses that go in each deep-frozen box can be agreed with the laboratory, which starts from a maximum of 5,000 immunizations in five trays.

'Acceleration' of dates to vaccinate before 2021

This is a schedule conditional on the EMA giving its approval, no later than the 23rd. After the 21st the CHMP issued its positive opinion.

Thus, from the European Commission they point to

26 as the day on which the first doses of the vaccine left the Belgian factory in Puurs, headed to the different countries and corresponding vaccination points.

Also, from the US laboratory they insist that no dose will leave

their facilities in Europe without authorization.

In this case, it would be an approval conditioned by the emergency of the situation, which must later be ratified.

This step would be almost a year later.

Time in which an exhaustive pharmacovigilance work will be done by all EU countries.

The speed of events is such that the period from which the Commission has prepared to

conclude the formal process will be two days

, despite the fact that it is a bureaucracy that usually requires 67. Sources from the Ministry of Health in Spain they assure that the advancement of dates does not mean that approval is given on the 21st, since, if more information is needed, they still have time to study it until the 29th, the initial deadline.

Europe, wide range of vaccines against covid-19

In addition, yesterday the European Commission ended the

portfolio of anti-Covid vaccines

with the closing of the negotiations of the last contract with the Novavax laboratory.

The agreement, not yet signed, contemplates the acquisition of 100 million doses of its vaccine candidate and the possible purchase of another 100 million.

In this way, it would become the seventh contract in the portfolio that the Community Executive has built after those already closed with AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK, Johnson & Johnson, BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna.

In this way, there will be

some 2,000 million doses

that will pass through the European Commission and will be distributed in a proportionate way among its member states.

The distribution is as follows: 400 from AstraZeneca, 300 Sanofi-GSK, 400 Johnson & Johnson, 300 BioNTech-Pfizer, 160 Moderna, 405 Curevac and 200 Novavax.

This large number of doses would serve to cover the needs of the more than 500 million citizens of the 28 EU countries, and, in addition, fulfill donation commitments through different global alliances to developing countries.

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