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Slovakia Has Received 145,000 Anti-pandemic Vaccines to Date
Tuesday 12 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 12 (TASR) - To date, 145,000 vaccines against pandemic flu have arrived in Slovakia, TASR was told by director of the State Material Reserves Administeration Lubomir Urban on Tuesday.
"Another 200,000 should be delivered by a pharmaceutical company from France within a few days, most likely next week. Another 655,000 vaccines should then arrive within two weeks," said Urban, adding that Slovakia will have the whole consignment at hand by the end of the first week of February, as was agreed in the contract with the pharmaceutical company.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in its latest report on pandemic flu stated that the flu season is probably over in most countries in the northern hemisphere. At the same time, WHO reported that the flu illness-rate has dropped in most European and North-Atlantic countries, which were the first countries in which the pandemic broke out last year. Many of these countries are now beginning to deal with the problem of storing redundant vaccines.
Slovakia isn't considering either selling redundant vaccines or getting rid of them at the moment. "We believe that all the vaccines will be used," said Urban.
The Slovak Government decided that the country would purchase anti-pandemic vaccines in the autumn of last year. More than a thousand cases of A(H1N1) flu have been confirmed in Slovakia to date.
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