From Wednesday, anyone belonging to a risk group, regardless of age, will be able to get vaccinated against coronavirus. Vaccinations will also start for the over 65s.
Until now, vaccination has been limited to the over 70s and those over 60 in risk groups but this will change from April 21, the Estonian Health Insurance Board (Haigekassa) said.
Maivi Parv, EHIF board member, said as approximately 70 percent of elderly people have been vaccinated, doctors can now start vaccinating younger age groups. However, in April we are still in a situation where the vaccine is arriving in the country in instalments and if your doctor does not have a time to offer you, they can add you to the waiting list. If the digital register does not have a time immediately, you should monitor local and national media and hospitals social media channels which will report available vaccination times, Parv said.
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Estonia adopts a vaccine distribution app built by volunteers
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Family physicians and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund have started using an application developed by Estonian logistics startup Sixfold along with a team of volunteers whose aim is to facilitate a more efficient distribution and delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines.
At the beginning of March, a joint workgroup was assembled by the Estonian state and various leading tech entrepreneurs, to find ways in which the private sector could contribute to resolving the coronavirus crisis.
The challenge set focused on how the vaccines could better reach family physicians and onwards to the general public, and was chosen from among the ideas offered by the workgroup. A digital vaccine delivery solution was created within three weeks that, as of the time of writing this article, is being used by the planners of the Health Insurance Fund and physicians. The application helps save thousands of valuable work time hours