{"id":13813,"date":"2021-05-19T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=13813"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:11:17","slug":"vaccination-campaign-suspended-in-pogradec-amid-vaccine-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/vaccination-campaign-suspended-in-pogradec-amid-vaccine-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination campaign suspended in Pogradec amid vaccine shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pogradec, a city in southeastern Albania, massive vaccination with Sinovac has been currently suspended for two days, meanwhile, there are around 1.000 citizens awaiting to get the second vaccine shot.<\/p>\n<p>More vaccine supplies are expected to arrive next week, local health authorities say, while so far 12.000 doses have been administered.<\/p>\n<p>In Kor\u00e7a health authorities are administering Pfizer jabs as a result of insufficient vaccines from the Chinese manufacturer Sinovac. Citizens in line to get a second dose have been told they will be called upon as soon as the vaccine batch arrives.<\/p>\n<p>Over 32.000 doses have been injected in Kor\u00e7a, with 22.000 citizens getting at least one dose.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, vaccine shortages resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/18\/queues-for-the-vaccine-citizens-theyve-postponed-our-second-dose-saying-theres-a-lack-of-vaccines\/\">long queues at the vaccination center in Tirana<\/a> but were considerably reduced the day after.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to an inquiry from Euronews Albania, the Health Ministry said that the vaccination process has \u201cnot stopped\u201d but is continuing at a slower pace while vaccine supplies are set to arrive in a few days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/06\/vaccination-albania-is-the-first-in-europe-in-terms-of-doses-administered\/\">COVID-19 vaccination, Albania ranks first in Europe in terms of daily doses administered<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/30\/eu-funded-covid-19-vaccines-commissioner-varhelyi-to-visit-tirana-on-wednesday\/\">EU funded COVID-19 vaccines, Commissioner Varhelyi to visit Tirana on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/24\/tourist-operators-call-for-government-stimulus-despite-high-hopes-from-vaccine-rollout\/\">Tourist operators call for government stimulus despite high hopes from vaccine rollout<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pogradec, a city in southeastern Albania, massive vaccination with Sinovac has been currently suspended for two days, meanwhile, there are around 1.000 citizens awaiting to get the second vaccine shot. More vaccine supplies are expected to arrive next week, local health authorities say, while so far 12.000 doses have been administered. In Kor\u00e7a health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vaccination campaign suspended in Pogradec amid vaccine shortages - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/vaccination-campaign-suspended-in-pogradec-amid-vaccine-shortages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vaccination campaign suspended in Pogradec amid vaccine shortages - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Pogradec, a city in southeastern Albania, massive vaccination with Sinovac has been currently suspended for two days, meanwhile, there are around 1.000 citizens awaiting to get the second vaccine shot. 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