Spanish authorities say on Saturday stated that a truck transporting the vaccine produced by Pfizer reached at a company warehouse in the central city of Guadalajara after making the trip from Belgium. It is the first part of what the government says will be weekly shipments of an average of 3,50,000 doses. The first vaccines will be administered Sunday morning at a nursing home in Guadalajara
The first vaccines will be administered Sunday morning at a nursing home in Guadalajara. Spain plans to receive more than 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine over the next 12 weeks, enough it says to immunize just over 2.2 million people. It will represent the first phase of a national vaccination plan.
Bulgaria also received the first batch of vaccines against the coronavirus. A truck with the first 9,750 doses escorted by police cars arrived Saturday morning at the Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in Sofia, where the boxes with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were unloaded.
Vaccinations will start on Sunday in a Sofia hospital, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said, adding that he will be the first to take the shot. Medics working with COVID-19 patients will be vaccinated with priority, as will residents of nursing homes.
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