The Vaccines developed by Moderna, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and BioNTech are in the Norway's list of vaccine to be used in its first push to inoculate its population against COVID-19, Norway’s health minister said on Friday. In the first quarter of 2021, Oslo expects to receive a total of 2.5 million doses, covering 1.25 million people or 23% of the population, waiting for the approval of the vaccines from European regulators.
The vaccine doses would roughly cover the 1.3 million people in Norway who are shortlisted in risk groups, Health Minister Bent Hoeie said, while the 340,000 health personnel in contact with patients would have to wait. Non-EU Norway will get access to some of the vaccines obtained by the European Union thanks to Sweden, an EU member that will buy more than it needs and sell them to Norway, right after New Year.
“By Easter, we could be in a completely different situation than today,” Hoeie said. Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in October she expected vaccinations to start in the first half of 2021 but Norway is starting early than expected. The first people to get the vaccine in Norway will be residents of care homes and those “oldest” living at home, followed by people aged 65 or more plus younger adults with pre-existing conditions. Norway to vaccinate free of charge and plans to make them part of the country’s national vaccination programme.
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