The government has decided: 24 municipalities will receive more vaccines, 23 municipalities will receive as before – and the rest must give doses. Check what applies to your municipality here.
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On Wednesday evening, Minister of Health Bent Høie said that the government is in favor of unequally distributing vaccines, ie giving more vaccines to certain municipalities, as the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has recommended.
A prerequisite for achieving this has been that the municipalities that have to give up vaccine doses to make this possible, would have the opportunity to make up for the delay by vaccinating more at the end of July – ie during the holidays.
This is also the reason why the government is now going to follow FHI’s recommendation on the unequal distribution.
The decision means that more municipalities must give vaccine doses – while 24 municipalities that have had persistently high infection pressure will get more. Trondheim and Kristiansand are among the 23 municipalities that do not have to give vaccine doses, but are allocated vaccine doses as before.
These municipalities receive several doses
The latest recommendation from FHI recommends that these municipalities receive more doses. The government is in favor of following this recommendation:
Lørenskog, Rælingen, Ullensaker, Sarpsborg, Enebakk, Oslo, Lillestrøm, Drammen, Nordre Follo, Fredrikstad, Nannestad, Bærum, Lier, Skien, Eidsvoll, Ås, Vestby, Nittedal, Råde, Indre Østfold, Rakkestad, Asker, Halden and Nesodden.
Nesodden was not included in FHI’s first draft of which municipalities should receive more vaccine doses – but was included in the next.
These municipalities do not have to give away vaccines
Aurskog-Høland, Bamble, Bergen, Frogn, Færder, Gjerdrum, Holmestrand, Horten, Hurdal, Kongsberg, Kristiansand, Lunner, Marker, Moss, Nes, Porsgrunn, Ringerike, Sandefjord, Skiptvet, Stavanger, Trondheim, Tønsberg and Øvre Eiker.
The municipality that is not on either this list or the list of municipalities that receive several doses must therefore give up vaccine doses.
Got the first recommendation for skewed distribution in April
– You received a recommendation at the end of April where FHI said that it was urgent to implement the skewed distribution. Why has this taken so long?
– The assessment we received then was not complete. It also says in the answer for FHI. It was not a description of the consequences of the other municipalities, which has been very important. In reality, there is talk of a one-week delay, the Minister of Health answers VG’s questions.
– It is very easy to know what it means for the municipalities that receive, but it was important to know what it means for the municipalities that give vaccines.
– How much faster will we be able to reopen because we skew vaccines?
– We will not be able to find a date for this in any reopening plan. But this is one of the factors that allows us to open up earlier, Høie answers.
166 agreed to vaccinate extra during the holidays
Last week, the government advocated that the vaccination strategy be changed so that 24 municipalities that have had a high infection pressure for a long time receive 60 per cent more doses than they would otherwise receive until everyone over the age of 18 has been offered a vaccine.
An important prerequisite for this has been that it is ensured that the municipalities that receive fewer doses in June and the beginning of July have the capacity to take this again in the latter part of July.
On a number of municipalities have already expressed their opposition against this as a result of them, among other things, having problems obtaining vaccinators.
In a survey conducted by the State Administrator on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate of Health, 166 out of 266 municipalities answered that they would be able to vaccinate extra in weeks 29–31. In addition, 56 municipalities are uncertain, but the Norwegian Directorate of Health expects that these municipalities will also be able to vaccinate extra with planning and extra resources.
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