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No plan is in place to fast-track coronavirus vaccines for government members, MPs, diplomats and other high-ranking officials, the foreign ministry says, adding that the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine will not be adminsitered to the diplomatic corps overseas. The news comes at a time when President Kersti Kaljulaid, who received a first coronavirus shot on Friday, is traveling to Spain on an official visit Monday. The government office says no plan has yet been put in place to provide coronavirus vaccinations to ministers, MPs and other leaders, ERR reports, as well as diplomats, though the office said that Estonia s overseas representatives will not be receiving either the Russian Sputnik V or Chinese Coravac injections, neither of which are currently approved by the EU and which have also attracted criticism over their perceived use for political gain. ....
0 > Üllar Lanno (left) and health minister Tanel Kiik, at a recent press conference. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR Coronavirus vaccine stocks have run out, the Health Board (Terviseamet) director Üllar Lanno said Friday. Speaking at a press conference Friday, Lanno said that: Vaccines stocks with the Health Board are now at zero. There is no reason to suggest that they are being held up somewhere. The Health Board is not delaying things, there is zero in storage. Estonia is part of the much-criticized EU-wide vaccine procurement program, and has so far received stocks primarily from U.S.-German firm Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as U.S. firm Moderna, together with supplies from heavily-criticized vaccine from U.K.-Swedish company AstraZeneca. ....