Government seeking to secure enough vaccines against Covid-19 by mid-2021

The Czech Republic should have enough vaccines against the coronavirus to satisfy public demand by the middle of 2021, the government’s commissioner for science and research Roman Prymula said on Thursday.

Mr. Prymula said the country had negotiated the purchase of 3.6 million vaccines from the company AstraZeneca which would cover the needs of health and social workers as well as high risk groups in the first phase of vaccinations.

He said further negotiations were underway to secure enough vaccines for all who wanted them. Prymula said that he expected the situation to improve dramatically in mid-2021, until which time people would simply need to observe the health precautions recommended.