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Norway will receive 120,000 more doses from Pfizer in the second quarter

Norway will receive 120,000 more doses from Pfizer in the second quarter than expected, says Minister of Health Bent Høie (H).

– We must be prepared for both good and bad vaccine news, the Minister of Health said at the government’s press conference on the corona situation on Wednesday.

– Now we have just got a good one. We will receive 120,000 more vaccines from Pfizer in the second quarter than we had anticipated earlier, Høie said.

He reassures those who fear that the vaccination will stop now that the AstraZeneca vaccine has been suspended, and says the government has made plans to deal with this as well.

Bet on many different vaccines

– We focus on many different vaccines in order to be able to vaccinate the population even if there should be problems with one or more vaccines. This means that vaccination in Norway will not stop.

Høie says that if the vaccines from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna arrive as planned, we will have enough vaccines during the summer months to be able to offer the entire adult population a vaccine.

– But this presupposes that the manufacturers do not encounter new unforeseen problems.

With regard to the AstraZeneca vaccine, the National Institute of Public Health will itself make an assessment of whether it should be part of the vaccination program in Norway, says NIPH director Camilla Stoltenberg.

Make an independent assessment

“Regardless of what the European Medicines Agency and the Norwegian Medicines Agency come to, the National Institute of Public Health, which is responsible for the national coronary vaccination program, will make an independent assessment of whether we will continue to offer this vaccine in the program in Norway,” says Stoltenberg.

Stoltenberg also said that it is important that we maintain confidence in the vaccination program and vaccines in the time ahead.

One of the three health workers who was recently admitted to Rikshospitalet after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, died on Sunday.

So far, no connection has been proven between the vaccine and the sick health workers, but the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been put on hold in Norway and a number of other countries.

– Records no one wants to set

Høie made no secret of the fact that we are now in a third wave of the pandemic. Last week, 5,337 were infected with the coronavirus, which is the highest number of new infections registered in one week since the pandemic started.

– Now we set records none of us want to set, said Høie.

In the last 24 hours alone, 1,156 corona infections have been registered in Norway, and 495 of them have been registered in Oslo.

On Wednesday, 451,308 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the corona vaccine in Norway, while 257,851 people received the second dose.

At the press conference, Høie said that health personnel who have received the first dose of vaccine at least three weeks ago may be exempted from the quarantine obligation during working hours. This change applies from no later than Friday.

Vaccinated people rarely pass on the infection

– Now we know that vaccinated people rarely pass the infection on to others. This also applies to those who have taken the first dose, said Høie (H).

Therefore, the authorities are now amending the regulations so that health personnel who have received the first dose at least three weeks ago can be exempted from quarantine, if they are needed at work. They must still be quarantined in their spare time.

The exception applies to health personnel in the specialist health service and in the municipal health and care service in situations where it is necessary to maintain the treatment capacity.

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