According to the new vaccination scenario at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, everyone over the age of 18 should receive the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine by mid-July.
As the updated vaccination scenario of the National Institute of Public Health shows, immunization in Norway is proceeding as planned.
On Monday, 615,500 Norwegians received their first dose of the vaccine. That's about 11 percent of the population.
The previous vaccination scenario was published on March 12. It was anticipated that all adults would be vaccinated by mid-July.
On Tuesday, FHI updated this scenario but made no major changes.
`` The new plan shows that we are likely to have a slight delay considering when people over 18 will get their first dose. At the same time, there is no particular delay as to when all vaccinations will be completed. This is Geir Bukholm, the director of the vaccination program.
- Probably it will not be felt that much.
There may be a delay before the tightening can be relaxed but as I said. We're talking about a delay of one to two weeks when people over 45 get their first dose, and a total delay of two weeks when we finish vaccinations in age groups over 18, he continues.
Greater security
In the past, choices have been made between real and optimistic scenario. In the new vaccination scenario, they were combined.
The main reason is that there is now more safety with regard to the delivery time of vaccines that are currently being actively used in Norway.
The difference between the two scenarios is that Curevac and Novavax are accounted for in the optimistic. They are assumed to be delivered from week 27 and 23, respectively.
- If you follow the main assumption and end at week 28, week 22 will be the last when we split 1 dose of Curevac and Novavax. As the first injection is assumed to be at week 23, no doses of these types of vaccine will be used. The consequence is that the realistic and optimistic scenario will be the same, we read in the FHI release.
"We've come so far that we know roughly what the pace will be in the future," says deputy director of vaccination program Jasper Littmann.
