Corona Minister Hugo de Jonge writes this in a letter to the Lower House.
Next deliveries
The minister wants to use the following deliveries primarily for people over the age of sixty, as recommended by the Health Council. The board came up with new advice tonight, in response to the approval of the vaccine by the European medicines agency EMA.
Because the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine is supplied in large quantities and has to be stored very cold, the cabinet previously opted not to vaccinate the residents of nursing homes and institutions for the mentally disabled, but the staff. These people can come to a central location, which is easier to arrange logistically.
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New choices
The cabinet is therefore sticking to its plan for the first delivery, which is expected in January. But De Jonge writes that the latest advice means that he ‘must make new choices for the implementation of the strategy’.
The minister will return in January on how vaccination should be arranged in healthcare institutions, he writes.
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