BERLIN – The Denmark of the Social Democratic premier Mette Frederiksen will continue the vaccination campaign against Covid without the AstraZeneca serum. The health authority of the kingdom has announced the definitive no to the vaccine, arguing that the risks of thrombosis or other lethal consequences are too great for the health of citizens at risk, despite the favorable opinions of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the ‘World Health Organization (WHO). “The vaccination campaign in Denmark continues without AstraZeneca’s vaccine,” announced the director of the National Health Agency, Soren Brostrm, at a press conference. Denmark is the first European country to make this choice. And he also confirmed the no, at the moment, to Sputnik and to Chinese vaccines.
Bostrom then wanted to highlight that the decision was taken by looking at the favorable situation currently experienced by Denmark and that the government “basically agrees with EMA’s assessments” on AstraZeneca. If Denmark “found itself in a completely different situation, for example in the midst of a violent third wave” or if it had “a health system under pressure”, or “if we hadn’t reached a good point in vaccination” then ” we would not have hesitated to use it “.
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Despite the absence of AstraZeneca, the vaccination program will go ahead at high speed: according to the Danes, the block will cause a 15-day delay, from the end of July to August 15, of obtaining a sufficient number of two-dose vaccinations to immunize everyone. citizens and residents of the country, almost 6 million people. So far in total, says a Republic the public health emergency anti-pandemic health authority, Laegemiddelstyrelsen, the vaccination program, launched on December 27, 2020, resulted in the first dose being injected to 976,942 people, equal to 16.9 percent of the total population. And in two doses for 461,206 people, equal to 7.9 percent.
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According to data published online by Laegemiddelstyrelsen, Denmark had 5.2 million doses of Astrazeneca, 3.9 million doses of Sanofi, 7 million doses of Johnson & Johnson, 9.2 million doses of Biontech, 9.1 million doses. Curevac, 10.8 million doses Moderna. In total, therefore, 45.2 million doses, which drop to 40 without AstraZeneca, or 20 million first and second dose vaccinations for 6 million citizens and residents. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the Scandinavian country has registered 563 new infections and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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