The American laboratory Pfizer warned Friday of a drop "from next week" in deliveries of anti-Covid vaccines to Norway and Europe.
The extent of the reduction has not been specified for the entire Old Continent.
The American laboratory Pfizer warned on Friday of a drop "from next week" in deliveries of anti-Covid vaccines to Norway and Europe, the time to improve its production capacities, announced the Norwegian authorities.
"The temporary reduction will affect all European countries," the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said in a statement.
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"It is not yet clear how long exactly it will take before Pfizer returns to maximum production capacity, which will be increased from 1.3 to 2 billion doses" per year, he said. added.
A 17.8% drop in deliveries in Norway next week
The FHI did not specify the extent of the reduction in deliveries for Europe as a whole, but said it expected to receive only 36,075 doses next week against 43,875 previously expected, a decrease of 17.8 % for the Scandinavian kingdom.
To compensate for this drop, Norway will draw on the precautionary vaccine stock that it had built up when it received the first doses.
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Although it is not a member of the European Union, the Nordic country is closely associated with it in many areas, including in the context of the purchase of anti-Covid vaccines negotiated by Brussels.