The Belgium is expected to fly almost half a million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine which expire on May 31, according to a post Le Soir newspaper. In particular, they expire at the end of this month 436,800 doses of the specific company, while 880,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna expire in July. In total, that is 1.3 million doses of vaccine.
With the slowing down the vaccination campaign, created a stock with about 9 million installments. Many of these vaccines are retained so that the entire population can be vaccinated if necessary. However, if there is no new serious wave of COVID19, many doses will be dropped in the coming months or in 2023, writes Soir.
AstraZeneca: Green light from Coreper for third dose of coronavirus vaccine
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced today that the her vaccine against Covid-19Vaxzevria, approved by the European Union regulator (Coreper) as third booster dose.
Now, the vaccine can be used as souvenirafter vaccination with two doses of Vaxzevria or by people who have previously been vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, such as the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
«Ensuring longer-lasting immunoprotection is key to the long-term management of Covid-19 as a whole, and booster doses can counteract the weakening of protection over time that has been identified with all basic vaccination regimens to date.“, States in an announcement o I live in PangalosExecutive Vice President of Biopharmaceutical Research and Development at AstraZeneca.
The European Medicines Agency has approved the use of Vaxzevria as a booster dose a few weeks after the European regulator approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine as a booster dose for adults who have completed the basic vaccine with other vaccines. .
Vaccine pharmaceutical companies have made it known that The largest volume of vaccinations this year will be booster doses or the basic vaccination regimen for children as it receives worldwide approval.
The decision of the European regulatory authority must be formally ratified by the European Commission.
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