ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has agreed to buy a hundred and fifty,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines
from Johnson & Johnson so as to arrive this week and be disbursed to regional authorities subsequent week, the executive observed on Wednesday.
Switzerland has relied so far on vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna using new mRNA technology however also considered ordinary vector jabs from Johnson & Johnson to help persuade more americans to get immunized.
"individuals aged 12 and over are still informed to be vaccinated essentially with an mRNA vaccine, as this presents a very high degree of insurance plan and is awfully safe," the Federal workplace of Public fitness observed.
nonetheless it noted that fitness experts had suggest J&J's vaccine to all individuals over 18 who can't be vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine for clinical motives or who reject the mRNA vaccine.
Pregnant girls and individuals with immunodeficiency were nonetheless r ecommended to make use of one of the most mRNA vaccines from Pfizer or Moderna.
Switzerland and tiny neighbour Liechtenstein have recorded virtually 840,000 infections and pretty much 10,700 deaths from COVID-19 seeing that the coronavirus pandemic began. round 58% of the inhabitants is fully vaccinated.
(Reporting with the aid of Michael Shields; editing via Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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