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To Whom the Vaccine, and to Whom the Games During the Epidemic

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To Whom the Vaccine, and to Whom the Games During the Epidemic

The whole world is fighting for the vaccine, and Lukashenka is fighting for the World Ice Hockey Championship.

Israel, a country similar to Belarus in the population (about 9 million), has already vaccinated about 20% of the population. The authorities recently announced a contract with the US-German corporation Pfizer / BioNTech for 10 million doses of the vaccine. Today, it is Israel that has become the absolute leader in the global vaccination race.

The second place is occupied by the United Arab Emirates, where more than 11 people per 100 inhabitants of the country received the vaccine.

Bahrain, Britain, the USA, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain are in the top ten by the number of vaccinated residents.

According to the portal OurWorldinData (Oxford University), China, Russia, and Poland are almost side by side, which are among the twenty countries in the world with the highest vaccination rates.

How Poland is vaccinated

On Monday, the Polish Ministry of Health informed that as of January 11, more than 200 thousand Poles from the so-called risk group had received the vaccine (first of all, vaccinations are given to doctors).

More than 1 million doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines have already arrived in Poland. Recently, the authorities bought a batch of vaccines from another American corporation, Moderna, which also gained access to the European market.

The vaccination process in Poland is divided into stages, a special hotline has been created where you can get all the information about vaccines, and after January 15, everyone can sign up for a vaccination queue.

Every day, the Polish Minister of Health holds a briefing, and statistics on vaccinations, diseases, and coronavirus victims are updated on all channels.

The healthy and the young will receive the vaccine last. Warsaw is well aware that normal life will return to the country only when about 70% of the population receives the vaccine. And the number of vaccines is limited, many countries are wishing to get it, and the struggle is going on every day.

Minsk put on Sputnik

At the end of December, Belarusian Minister of Health Dzmitry Pinevich said that vaccination would begin in January, and, at the first stage, it was planned to vaccinate 200 thousand citizens from the risk group.

Minsk plans to vaccinate 2 million citizens (about 20%) with the Russian vaccine SputnikV.

The authorities differ in the figures since, a few days later, Aliaksandr Lukashenka spoke about the planned vaccination of 1.2 million people, and, what is most interesting, promised the Belarusians vaccines from different manufacturers. Like, to decide "which is more effective." But there is no specificity, as there is no vaccination schedule.

I wonder how many applications Belarus has submitted for the purchase of Western vaccines. How much did it get?

It seems that the head of Belarus has chosen a simplified path: the Belarusian diplomats do not need to suffer and squeeze the budget.

It is known that the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved only the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. The Russian one did not go through all the research stages, and it will be approved, perhaps, only six months later. Do propagandists on state television explain what this means?

Well, what for? We need to prepare for the May World Ice Hockey Championship in Minsk and engage all diplomatic, political, and financial resources so that the games are not transferred to another place. Well, the pandemic does not fit into these plans. In the end, Lukashenka and Kolka have already had coronavirus.

Ruslan Shoshyn, Belsat

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