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Record Number of Icelanders to Be Vaccinated This Week

Record Number of Icelanders to Be Vaccinated This Week
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7,000 People to Be Vaccinated This Week

7,000 People to Be Vaccinated This Week People standing in line, waiting for vaccination, at Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson Vala Hafstað A total of 12,729 vaccinations have been completed in Iceland. Another 19,393 have been started, according to covid.is.  “This is going really well,” Ragnheiður Ósk Erlendsdóttir, managing director of nursing for the Capital Area Health Clinics, tells Morgunblaðið. “We’ve seen a steady stream of people.” The vaccine is administered at Laugardalshöll sports center. Yesterday, people born in 1940, 1941 and 1942 were called in to be vaccinated, as well as healthcare workers 65 and older, and a small group of healthcare workers aged 16-18.

Talks with Pfizer to Continue Today

Talks with Pfizer to Continue Today Vala Hafstað Representatives of Icelandic authorities will be meeting online today, Tuesday, with representatives of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to discuss the possibility of Pfizer conducting a phase IV trial of their COVID-19 vaccine in Iceland in order to research, among other things, whether herd immunity can be achieved. Talks to this effect have been ongoing since December. Morgunblaðið’s sources indicate that a decision is likely to be made following today’s meeting. Should the study be approved, the infrastructure needed for the project is well underway. Laugardalshöll sports center in Reykjavík has already been converted into a mass vaccination site, where thousands of people could potentially be vaccinated a day. The vaccination facility on Suðurlandsbraut, Reykjavík, which has been used so far, offers limited parking space, while Laugardalshöll has about 1,400 parking spots.

COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives in Iceland

COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives in Iceland The vaccine has arrived. Photo/Police Vala Hafstað An aircraft carrying Iceland’s first shipment of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine landed at Keflavík International Airport this morning, mbl.is reports. The aircraft left Amsterdam, the Netherlands, shortly after 7 am. It transported 10,000 doses of the vaccine, sufficient for 5,000 people. The vaccine was then to be transported to the warehouse of the distribution company Distica, which will be in charge of its distribution. There, it will be received by Minister of Health Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason, Chief Superintendent Víðir Reynisson, and Director of Health Alma Möller.

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