The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Ogerta Manastirliu has followed the process of vaccination with mobile units in Ndroq, on the outskirts of Tirana.
Speaking about the growing interest in anticovid vaccination even among young people, Manastirliu said that there will again be open weeks of mass vaccination +18 years old.
“Open vaccination weeks will continue. The fact that we have availability and different types of vaccines in all our health facilities creates the opportunity for us to continue vaccination for every age group. Of course these days have shown that open vaccination has worked. Recent days have shown that vaccine coverage has increased for all age groups and there is a growing interest in the young age group, ie +18 years old.“, Said Manastirliu.
Speaking about the availability of vaccines, Manastirliu said that another amount of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in our country on Monday.
“We are waiting on Monday to continue the supply of vaccines. We will have about 44 thousand doses of Pfizer vaccine on Monday, following the contract we have, of the Albanian government with the company Pfizer as well as the support of the European Union. “Meanwhile, we will continue to increase the amount of vaccines in the country, thanks to the contracts we have signed.” said Manastirliu.
Emphasizing the risk of rapid spread of the Delta variant, the Minister of Health has invited citizens to be vaccinated as soon as possible.
“We have reasonable doubts from the laboratory signals that the Delta variant is circulating in Albania. But we are still waiting for the results of the Reference Laboratories to confirm this suspicion of ours. What is important, given what is happening in the surrounding countries, where it is seen that there is an increase in the circulation of this variant and there is a need to raise awareness in fact about the vaccination process. The vaccine is the only weapon we have“, Said Manastirliu.
Speaking about the new cases with Covid19 that have increased in recent days, the head of the Department of Epidemiology at IPH, Silva Bino said that there is an increase in numbers at a young age from 15 to 24, from 25 to 34 and 35 to 44 and over 70 years old we have had cases.
