Since the summer, there have been no new supplies of this drug to the country, the vaccine was allowed to inject people who were born in 1960 and earlier.
The minister said that several people have signed up for the AstraZeneca vaccination in recent weeks. People who have already had their first shot and have signed up for a booster shot with AstraZeneca will be vaccinated with Pfizer.
Large number of doses AstraZeneca was transferred to other countries, but more than 100 thousand doses of the drug were disposed of due to the expired shelf life.
According to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), clinical studies of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine have shown it to be effective in preventing COVID-19 in people 18 years of age and older. Efficiency first vaccines were set at about 60%, but in March AstraZeneca updated its research and increased efficiency to 76%.
As reported Bloomberg, in the Netherlands 24 million vaccinations were made against coronavirus, 68.7% of the population are fully vaccinated.
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