Janssen Pharmaceutical Deliveries of its coronavirus vaccine to all European Union countries began on Monday, which is expected to arrive 55 million doses between April and June to boost the immunization campaign in the Member States, confirmed the European Commission.
“Good news today with the start of Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine deliveries across the European Union. This will help speed up access to vaccines for citizens and ensure that our vaccination target of 70% of the population is met. Adult for the summer, “European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides wrote on Twitter.
The European Commission is optimistic about the arrival of vaccines from Janssen, a subsidiary of the American multinational Johnson & Johnson, which joins those already used in the first quarter (Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca) to accelerate vaccinations in Member States, many of which have recorded record data on the administration of the vaccine in the first days of April.
The four companies have pledged to deliver around 360 million doses between April and June, a calculation that already takes into account the fact that AstraZeneca has announced that it will not comply with what was agreed in its contract with Brussels and will deliver in exchange 70 million doses out of 180 ..
In any case, the fact that 55 of the 360 million vaccines are Johnson & Johnson single-dose medicines and that Moderna and Pfizer have fulfilled their delivery promises encourages the European Union to believe that many countries could reach the target of 70 % of the adult population vaccinated during the summer.
According to an internal European Union calculation to which Efe had access, Spain could have doses for vaccinating more than 27 million people, 57.41% of the population, by the end of June, assuming that all pharmaceutical companies comply with the deliveries of drugs stipulated in their contracts with Brussels.
The estimate is more optimistic than the one presented last week by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, who estimated that Spain will have 25 million people immunized by July 19 in an appearance after the meeting of the Council of Ministers.
Some countries, such as Malta (93.1% by the end of June) or Denmark (79.88%), exceed the average rate of European partners, while only four would remain below half of the vaccinated population by the end of June: The Czech Republic (44.67%), Slovakia (45.58%), Bulgaria (45.21%) and Croatia (45.28%).