Vaccinations brought forward by three weeks

With 10,500 additional Covid vaccine doses expected to arrive in the Faroes next week, the health authorities have decided to bring forward the vaccination programme by three weeks.

This comes after the Faroes were allocated their 0.9-percent share of the 1.17 million doses which Denmark recently purchased from Romania.

Danish health authorities have brought their vaccination programme forward by two weeks and are now extending their vaccine approvals to include 12-15-year-olds.

The Faroese health authorities are debating whether this should apply in the Faroes too. A decision is expected within the next couple of weeks.

No new Covid cases

Yesterday’s round of 1,284 tests yielded no positive outcomes.

The daily numbers of positive tests over the past week have been as follows: 1, 1, 0, 3, 1, 2 and 0.

There are currently ten active Covid cases in the country. No-one is receiving hospital treatment for Covid-19, and 103 people are currently listed as being in quarantine.

According to the latest vaccination figures on corona.fo, updated today, 28,596 people (53.6 percent of the population) have received the first shot of the vaccine, while 19,749 (37 percent) have received the second shot.

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

Read the Faroese version of this article here.

Translated by prosa.fo

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