The regional management in Skåne went out on Wednesday and regretted the booking chaos that arose this week when phase 4 of covid vaccination began in the region.

In several parts of the country, the booking pressure is extremely high, including in Värmland and in Stockholm.

This is despite the fact that the flow of vaccine deliveries to Sweden is at an even level.

- The influx looks very good, from Pfizer and Moderna we will receive

500,000 doses per week

from June onwards, now we are just below that, says Sweden's vaccine coordinator Richard Bergström to SVT.

"Has the capacity to vaccinate young people"

At present, he sees no clouds of concern from outside that risk slowing down the vaccination rate in Sweden.

- Pfizer and Moderna have shown that they have a very stable pace.

It would be if there was a real accident in that case.

What has been a question mark is how many Astra Zeneca doses are to be picked up in the country, the Public Health Agency is looking at this and at some stage we will stop taking it.

The European Medicines Agency is expected to give the green light to vaccinate 12-15-year-olds with Pfizer's vaccine during the next week or week.

After that, the Swedish Public Health Agency will decide whether it is something that Sweden should do.

- We have the contracts and volumes so that it is enough to vaccinate them, but this is something that the Public Health Agency must decide on, says Bergström.

New vaccine variants in December

This summer, Sweden will also start taking vaccine doses of the German-made vaccine Curevac, provided that the European Medicines Agency approves it.

According to FHM's forecasts, if Curevac is counted, it will be

8 million doses

to Sweden during July to September.

The EU has recently secured a contract with Pfizer for

1.8 billion doses

between 2022-2023, for Sweden

40 million doses

.

This is to be prepared for vaccination in the coming years and to have a vaccine that is effective against the virus variants.

Those vaccines are expected to hit the market in December.

- Hopefully we do not have to give it, hopefully our existing vaccines provide enough protection, but in the worst case we have to vaccinate the entire population, says Richard Bergström.

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Professors Niklas Arnberg and Matti Sällberg explain what we need to know about the new virus mutations. Photo: SVT