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Vaccines: EU will receive 100 million doses per month in second quarter

2021-03-08T13:49:42.862Z


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday March 8 to expect " 100 million doses per month " of the anti-Covid vaccine to be delivered in the second quarter to the EU, where immunization programs idle. Read also: Covid-19: why so few caregivers have been vaccinated so far " We expect on average nearly 100 million doses per month in the second quarter, and a total of 300 milli


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday March 8 to expect "

100 million doses per month

" of the anti-Covid vaccine to be delivered in the second quarter to the EU, where immunization programs idle.

Read also: Covid-19: why so few caregivers have been vaccinated so far

"

We expect on average nearly 100 million doses per month in the second quarter, and a total of 300 million by the end of June,

" she explained to the regional daily

Stuttgarter Nachrichten

(southwest), referring to both an increase in the rate of deliveries and the close authorization of new products.

The head of the European executive expects a delivery of 50 million doses in March while so far the EU, with nearly 748 million inhabitants, has only received 51.5 million since end December.

Three vaccines have been authorized by the European authority - those from BionNTech / Pfizer, AstraZeneca / Oxford and Moderna - and the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) is due to decide Thursday on the authorization of Johnson's product. Johnson, which only requires one injection.

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine reached a key milestone for its deployment in the European Union last week, with the start of its review by the EMA.

The European Commission is targeting 70% of Europeans vaccinated by the end of the summer, but criticism is raised against the slowness of immunization campaigns.

At least 41.4 million doses have been administered to about 28.6 million people, or 6.4% of the population, according to a count made by AFP on Monday at 12:30 GMT from official sources.

In addition, 12.8 million people received their second dose, or 2.9% of the population.

Germany in particular vaccinated an average of 203,000 people per day last week.

In total 6.2% of the population received at least one injection, which represents 7.6 million doses administered out of 10.4 million delivered.

In France, 5.7 million doses were administered on March 6 to 3.8 million people, or 5.6% of the population.

By comparison, the most advanced country, Israel, has already injected doses to more than 57% of its population.

And nearly 44% received both doses there.

Source: lefigaro

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