Slovenia Times
4. March, 2021
Ljubljana – Slovenia is planning to start mass vaccination of teachers against Covid-19 next week, Jelko Kacin, the coordinator for the logistics of mass vaccination, announced as he visited a vaccination point in Ljubljana on Wednesday.
If everything goes according to plan, Slovenia could administer about 240,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in March, which is about half the capacity, said Kacin, adding that between 500,000 and 600,000 people could be inoculated a month or roughly 30,000 per work day.
Next week the country expects a delivery of over 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Even if those did not arrive, about 15,000 doses are in stock to be used to start vaccinating teachers as a priority next week.
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