TIRANA, March 16 /ATA/Another delivery of 9,360 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were brought last evening at “Mother Teresa” Airport in Tirana.
Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu and the Minister of State for Reconstruction Arben Ahmetaj stated that in the meantime the delivery of other quantities from the contract of 500 thousand doses with “Pfizer” will continue.
“Today, we received 9360 doses which come from our contract with ‘Pfizer’. We will continue with the revaccination, i.e. with the second doses and we will conclude the whole part of the first vaccinations performed for the medical staff and also for the elderly in the Homes of the elderly, the plus 80 years old, to ensure full protection and also the efficiency of vaccination as a process “, said Manastirliu.
“These doses will go to the Institute of Public Health and will be stored in IPH refrigerators to be distributed later in centralized vaccination centers,” said Manastirliu.
Minister Manastirliu said that, “In the meantime, we are waiting for the other vaccines and we will have an intensification of vaccination and extension in all categories”.
Manastirliu stressed that, “So far, Albania has received, thanks to the contracts it has concluded, over 80 thousand doses of vaccines, while they continue to be performed within all safety parameters”. Meanwhile, she said, “Vaccination will be a process that will continue to intensify day by day.”
“Today, we have carried out 2400 vaccinations throughout the territory and revaccinations also to complete the process and we will continue with the intensification according to those vaccine calendars in the future,” she added.
Whereas, Minister Ahmetaj said that from the contract with “Pfizer” there are 500 thousand vaccines and they will continue to be delivered normally in April, May, June, there will be no empty months./j.p/r.e/p.s./
