Norwegians can be fully vaccinated three weeks earlier – VG

The reason is that Norway will receive significantly more doses in the future, in addition to the large start-up for the dose two vaccination is accelerated by two weeks.

These are the new estimates from FHI:

The new estimate from FHI is that everyone has received an offer within weeks 38–39, ie at the end of September.

• 55–64 years: Everyone has received an offer in week 32, before they thought week 36.
• 45–54 years: Everyone has received an offer in week 34, before they thought 37.
• 18–44 years: Everyone has received an offer in week 38–39, before they believed 41-42.

– Now we get more Moderna and more Pfizer and FHI have looked at the vaccine calendar that we can finish the dose two to three weeks earlier than what was planned in the previous round. This means that we are much stronger equipped going forward, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg to VG.

She says that we will probably get over 250,000 extra doses from Moderna and Pfizer in July and August, and that we will also get 70,000 extra Moderna doses in September.

– This is in addition to those 258,000 extra Pfizer doses that became known yesterday and those 100,000 doses we received from Lithuania last weeke, and which has already arrived in Norway, says Solberg.

– What does this news mean for the reopening?

– This means that the total reopening will be closer. Not step four, but what comes after that. When we have a high degree of vaccination in Norway, it is easier to return to a more normal everyday life, says Solberg.

– So it will be a more normal autumn than we have expected?

– Yes, we get a more normal autumn that comes earlier than expected, she confirms.

It has been big differences in how far the municipalities have come with the vaccination in the different age groups. FHI believed that the 100,000 doses from Latvia should bring municipalities so lagged behind at the same level.

They estimate that everyone who wants to get dose one should have received an offer by the end of week 31. From week 32 there is a dose of two people which is at the top of the priority list.

Here you can see how Norway is doing with the vaccination in your municipality:

–