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The Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu, present at the Committee on Labor, Social Affairs and Health has presented the amendment of the agreement between the company Pfizer and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, the Minister of State for Reconstruction and the Institute of Public Health, expressing that the Albanian government guarantees with this agreement, the continuation of the vaccination process for the entire population.
Minister Manastirliu has indicated that for 2022 the purchase of 1 million doses of Pfizer vaccine and 500 optional doses is foreseen, while it is expected that the first amount of doses of this contract is expected to arrive in the country within March.
“Through this agreement, we provide 1 million doses of vaccines for 2022, coming according to a calendar, until the end of March 300 thousand doses and continuing in June another 200 thousand doses, in September 200 thousand doses and in 3- last month of the year, 300 thousand doses of vaccines. If we estimate that the National Vaccination Plan will need a faster amount of other doses of vaccines, we will have the opportunity through this agreement to have another 500 thousand doses, out of 1 million doses that will to have guaranteed in these 12 months of the year “, said Manastirliu.
Speaking about the vaccination process, Manastirliu said that over 2.7 million vaccinations have been carried out, inside and outside the country, while he also spoke about the vaccination of children.
“Currently, more than 2.6 million applications have been made and while we have continued with another process in terms of collecting all the documentation of Albanian citizens who have been vaccinated abroad but who turn out to have applied the vaccine, who are over 55 thousand citizens who have been vaccinated abroad and are calculated in the total dose applications that go around 2.7 million applications for Albanian citizens, making us have a percentage of vaccine coverage with a single dose for the target population +16 years 59.3% and over 55 % with two doses. This agreement guarantees the continuation of the vaccination process with the booster dose, but also for children. “If the National Vaccination Committee will have a recommendation for vaccination of children, through this agreement, we also guarantee vaccinations for pediatric ages”, said Manastirliu.
Regarding the epidemiological situation, Manastirliu stated that currently we have a reduction of daily cases and the situation in hospitals is under control.
“In Albania it is noticed that in the last two weeks we have a decrease in the incidence of positive cases, just as the situation in hospitals is estimated to be controlled. We have a decrease in cases of hospitalizations and also fatalities in the last two weeks, compared to the peak of cases with Omicron variant in the third week of January, where we had a peak of cases but that thankfully, thanks to vaccination does not has been accompanied by a high increase of cases in hospitals and of course this has been best coped by hospitals “, said Manastirliu.
The Albanian government has allocated in the 2022 budget about 2.7 billion lek for the anti-covid vaccination process. Together with the vaccines that are expected to arrive through the Covax instrument during 2022, there are over 5 million doses of vaccines that will have arrived in Albania since the beginning of the vaccination process. In total, over 70% of doses of anticovid vaccines are funded by the Albanian government. The absorption of vaccine doses that have arrived in Albania is over 82%.
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