European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen will announce an additional supply of covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech today, Prime Minister Andrej Babis (YES) told CNN Prima News today. Thanks to this, the Czech Republic could receive an additional 80,000 benefits in March. Minister of Health Jan Blatný (for YES) said on Friday that the Czech Republic will receive over a million doses of the vaccine in March, of which about 700,000 will be from Pfizer / BioNTech.
As of Tuesday, 20:00, the statistics of the Ministry of Health in the Czech Republic state 902,605 reported vaccinations. In an interview with CNN Prima News, Babiš said that the number should exceed one million this week. “The President of the European Commission will announce another additional quantity from Pfizer / BioNTech today, which would mean about 80,000 for us in March,” Babiš said. He again described vaccination as a key issue in the fight against covid-19.
The Prime Minister hopes that the atmosphere in the Czech Republic will be as it was last March at the beginning of the epidemic. “No government can do it without cooperation with the people, let’s try to stand together, I am convinced that this may be the last lockdown,” the prime minister said. The growth of the epidemic has stopped, but the number of people in hospitals and requiring intensive care is still high, the prime minister said.
Babiš did not want to specify how the epidemic would have to develop so that the government could relax the measures tightened from the beginning of March. “I firmly hope that after Easter there will be a time when we will say, when the children will return to school, when they will start playing sports again and what it should look like. And in the meantime, of course, we have to vaccinate very quickly,” he said.
Source: CTK
