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Pfizer Temporarily Reduces COVID Vaccine Deliveries To Europe
Pfizer will temporarily reduce its deliveries to Europe of its vaccine against COVID19 while it upgrades its production capacity, the company and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Friday.
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OSLO: Pfizer will temporarily reduce its deliveries to Europe of its vaccine against COVID-19 while it upgrades its production capacity, the company and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Friday.
“We received this message today a little before 10am (0900 GMT). We had expected 43,875 vaccines doses from Pfizer in week 3 (next week). Now it appears that we will get 36,075 doses,” the FHI said in a statement.
Nearly two dozen nursing home residents in Norway died within days of receiving their first stick with the COVID-19 vaccine, triggering a warning from health officials for sick patients over the age of 80 years old.
Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks For Sick Elderly Patients After 23 Die Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks For Sick Elderly Patients After 23 Die For those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said.
Norwegian officials said 23 people had died a short time after receiving their first dose of vaccine.
Norway said Covid-19 vaccines may be too risky for the very old and terminally ill, the most cautious statement yet from a European health authority as countries assess the real-world side effects of the first shots to gain approval.
OTTAWA Over the next month Canada will be experiencing a âtemporaryâ delay in Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipments due to the pharmaceutical giantâs expansion plans at its European manufacturing facility, with the shortage resulting in an average of 50 per cent of coming doses delayed each week. While shipments will continue in the coming weeks, the amount of doses in them will be lessened, sometimes by hundreds of thousands of doses. âPfizer has confirmed that Canada s deliveries will be impacted for the next four weeks. We will see an average reduction over this timeframe of 50 per cent of expected deliveries. There will minimal impact next week⦠The most profound impact will be in the week of January 25,â said Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, who is leading Canadaâs logistical rollout.
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