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National Round-Up: Residents at nursing homes given green light to get third shot
Mariesa Brahms
September 7th, 2021
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Infection rates are slowly crawling back up in elderly homes
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The Sundhedsstyrelsen health authority has confirmed that a third vaccination shot can now be offered to residents at Denmark’s nursing homes.
A new vaccination program will most likely start in Week 37.
Sundhedsstyrelsen has announced its plans following a request from the European Medicines Agency, which has been working in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention.
Sensible to vaccinate
Given how vulnerable elderly people are, it makes sense to further reduce the risk, according to Helene Bilsted Probst from Sundhedsstyrelsen.
Furthermore, the infection rate in nursing homes has also been rising of late, she added.
Netherless, the survival rate is better – for example, it was recently reported that the former foreign minister, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, would have probably died of corona had he not been vaccinated.
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