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Cut in Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Deliveries in EU Bad News - Estonian Minister Fri 15th January 2021 | 11:40 PM
HELSINKI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th January, 2021) Pfizer s announcement of a temporal reduction in the deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine to European countries, including Estonia, is bad news, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs Tanel Kiik said on Friday.
Earlier in the day, the US pharmaceutical company said that it would temporarily cut shipments of the vaccine in the next three to four weeks due to construction works at its key plant in Belgium, which aimed at ramping up its production capacity starting in mid-February.
More than 10,000 people in Estonia have received 1st dose of coronavirus vaccine 2021-01-10 BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN – In the first two weeks of vaccination, 10,197 people have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccine at 100 healthcare facilities in Estonia.
The first dose has been given to most of the staff of family medicine centers, approximately 30 percent of the staff of the hospitals in the hospital network, as well as the staff and residents of the first care homes, the Ministry of Social Affairs said.
Altogether 2,225 people were vaccinated on Friday. Over the two weeks, 100 healthcare providers have carried out vaccinations, including 71 family medicine institutions where the majority of employees of all Estonian family medicine centers have been vaccinated 21 hospitals, two ambulance services, three specialized medical care institutions and three nursing care institutions.
Saaremaa developing plan to build new hospital in Kuressaare with EU support 2021-01-10 BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN - The largest Estonian island of Saaremaa has a plan to build a new hospital in Kuressaare with the support of the European Union that would meet the needs of the county s residents in the coming decades as well, the regional Saarte Haal writes. Although everything related to the construction of the new hospital is still hypothetical and no decision has been made yet, a plan does indeed exist, Kalle Laanet, Saaremaa rural municipality council member and chairman of the supervisory board of Kuressaare Hospital, said. After all, we must be guided by what our people will need also in the future, in the coming decades.
ERR News looks back at 2020 which was, if nothing else, an eventful year.
As no one needs reminding, 2020 was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and its knock-on effects on everyday life and the economy, several EKRE-led scandals and the upcoming marriage referendum.
But other, more positive events also occurred, such as Estonia taking up its first non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
The ERR News team has looked back over the top stories of 2020.
January
The year started with Estonia formally commencing its two-year stint as a non-permanent member on the UN Security Council (UNSC).
Estonia had been awarded the post in June the previous year, and joined Niger, Tunisia, Vietnam and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as non-permanent members for 2020-2021.