Covid vaccination plan announced

A new executive order issued by the government outlines the procedures for Covid-19 vaccinations over the coming weeks and months.

The vaccine will be rolled out in phases, with health workers and staff at elderly care institutions to be offered the vaccine in phase 1.

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The phase 1 group is specified as followed: GPs and their staff, emergency medical service staff, the G1 unit at the National Hospital, ER staff at Klaksvík Hospital and Suðuroy Hospital, the national ambulance service, the Covid-19 ward, Covid-19 testing staff plus health and care workers at elderly care institutions.

Everyone, including those in subsequent vaccination phases, will be offered the vaccine free of charge.

Vaccinations will be organised by the Hospital Service and will take place at the country’s three hospitals as well as at an additional, yet to be specified, unit in Tórshavn.

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A mobile vaccination unit will also be deployed to travel to other parts of the country. Vaccinations and potential side effects will be registered in the digital health system.

The health minister announced on Thursday that some 4,770 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are expected to arrive in the Faroes on 26 December and that vaccinations will commence immediately.

For further information about Covid-19 in the Faroes, visit corona.fo.

Translated by prosa.fo