LONDON – “Don’t you accept the AstraZeneca vaccine? You end up at the end of the vaccination campaign row ”. While Denmark (and perhaps other countries soon) suspends the Oxford vaccine after the very rare cases of possible thrombosis, Ireland instead chooses the opposite path. A hard line and in some respects sensational: citizens who refuse the coronavirus vaccine assigned to them, in this case AstraZeneca, will end up at the end of the line and will be the last to receive it.
This was announced by the Irish Deputy Prime Minister (and former Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar. This is because the recent stop – again for suspected thrombosis – to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (based on an adenoviral technique such as that of Oxford-AstraZeneca, unlike Pfizer and Moderna’s “mRnas”) will have an important impact on the Dublin vaccination campaign. In fact, Ireland expected about 650,000 doses of the American single-dose treaty by June. Fundamental numbers for its population.
Fortunately, yesterday’s European announcement regarding a new Pfizer stock arriving (50 million additional doses in the coming months for the whole of the EU and 545,000 for Ireland) will compensate for this hiccup. However, Dublin wants to avoid any other setbacks and for this reason it will make the intake of the AstraZeneca vaccine more stringent. Also because the government’s goal is clear and Prime Minister Martin does not want to miss it: 80% of the population vaccinated against Covid by the end of June.
Yesterday Ireland recorded 431 new Coronavirus positives and 12 deaths, for a total of 242,105 infections and 4812 deaths.
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