the pharmaceutical Janssen has delivered this Monday to all countries of the European Union of its coronavirus vaccine, which is expected to arrive 55 million doses between April and June to boost the immunization campaign in member states, the European Commission confirmed.
“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 we achieve our goal of vaccinating 70% of the population. adult population for the summer, ”European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides wrote on Twitter.
The European Commission is optimistic about the arrival of Janssen vaccines, a subsidiary of the American multinational Johnson & Johnson, which join those already used in the first quarter (Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca) to give gas to the vaccinations in the Member States, many of which have recorded record vaccine administration data in early April.
The four companies have agreed to provide about 360 million doses between April and June, a calculation that already takes into account that AstraZeneca has announced that it will not comply with what has been agreed in its contract with Brussels and will deliver 70 million doses instead of 180.
In any case, the fact that 55 of these 360 million vaccines are from Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose drug and that Moderna and Pfizer have fulfilled their delivery promises encourages the European Union to think that many countries could reach the target of 70% of the adult population vaccinated during the summer.
According to an internal calculation of the European Union to which Efe has had access, Spain could have the doses to vaccinate more than 27 million people, 57.41% of the population, by the end of June, counting that all pharmaceutical companies comply with the drug deliveries stipulated in their contracts with Brussels.
The estimate is more optimistic than the one presented last week by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who estimated that Spain will have 25 million people immunized by July 19 in an appearance after the Cabinet meeting.
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 population vaccinated by the end of the month. June: Czech Republic (44.67%), Slovakia (45.58%), Bulgaria (45.21%) and Croatia (45.28%).