The Janssen Pharmaceutical started on Monday to deliver to all countries of the European Union its coronavirus vaccine, which is expected to arrive 55 million doses between April and June to boost the vaccination campaign in Member States, the European Commission confirmed.
“Good news today with the start of deliveries of the Johnson & Johnson single-use vaccine across the European Union. This will help accelerate access to vaccines for citizens and ensure that we reach our goal of reaching 70% of the population. Adults before the summer, ”Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health, wrote on Twitter.
The European Commission is optimistic about the arrival of vaccines from Janssen, a subsidiary of the American multinational company Johnson & Johnson, which are joining the vaccines already used in the first quarter (Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca) to provide vaccinations in the Member States. accelerate. recorded record data on vaccine administration in the first days of April.
The four companies have pledged to provide approximately 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 instead 70 million doses. from 180 ..
In any case, the fact that 55 of those 360 million vaccines are Johnson & Johnson’s single-use drugs, which Moderna and Pfizer have delivered with their delivery, encourages the European Union to think that many countries would reach the 70% target. can reach. of the adult population vaccinated during the summer.
According to an internal European Union calculation to which Efe has had access, by the end of June Spain could have the doses to vaccinate more than 27 million people, 57.41% of the population, assuming all pharmaceutical companies adhere to the supplies of drugs stipulated in their contracts with Brussels.
The estimate is more optimistic than that presented last week by the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, who estimated that by July 19, Spain will have 25 million immunized people in a post-cabinet meeting.
Some countries, such as Malta (93.1% at the end of June) or Denmark (79.88%), exceed the average percentage of the European partners, while only four would remain below half of the vaccinated population at the end of June: Czech Republic (44, 67%), Slovakia (45.58%), Bulgaria (45.21%) and Croatia (45.28%).