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Copenhagen to offer ‘leftover’ Covid-19 vaccines: Here’s how to sign up

People who live within the Greater Copenhagen health authority region can register on a daily waiting list to be offered one of a small number of unused Covid-19 vaccines at short notice.

Published: 27 April 2021 16:08 CEST
Copenhagen to offer 'leftover' Covid-19 vaccines: Here’s how to sign up
A sign directing towards a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Copenhagen. Photo: Philip Davali/Ritzau Scanpix

The scheme is an effort to prevent unused vaccines being wasted and was confirmed by the Region Hovedstaden (Greater Copenhagen) health authority on Tuesday.

Anyone with an address in the region can register for the waiting list, regardless of whether they have received an invitation for vaccination through the regular programme.

READ ALSO: When and how can foreign residents get the Covid-19 vaccine in Denmark?

If you are unsure whether you live in the Hovedstaden/Greater Copenhagen region, check the yellow public health insurance car (sygesikringskort in Danish). It will show the logo of the health authority under which your address comes.

The Hovedstaden/Greater Copenhagen Region encompasses all of the capital city and its environs along with northeastern Zealand, as well as Baltic Sea island Bornholm.

On average, 1-5 vaccines daily are left over at one of the region’s large vaccination centres, and large numbers of people are registering for the waiting list, according to the Region – so the chance of being offered vaccination through the route is not high.

You can register for the excess vaccines using the form on the regionh.dk website under the heading Tilmeld dig dagens liste (register for the daily list). Click the button marked ‘Tilmed dig dagens liste’ to register.

Registration is only valid for one day at a time, so you must re-register on each day you wish to be considered. You must also complete registration between midnight and 1:30pm on the relevant day.

The scheme is not intended for people who have already received a first dose of the virus.

As with the regular vaccination programme, older people will be given higher priority for the leftover vaccines.

Staff for the region will call you if you can be offered vaccination on a given day. The calls are likely to be made between 5pm and 8pm, but this can vary. You must be able to get to the vaccination centre within 30 minutes of receiving the call.

The region has decided to open its vaccine waiting list to all residents to “ensure that no vaccines are wasted” with deliveries and flow at vaccination centres speeding up, the health authority’s interim deputy director Helene Bliddal Døssing said in a statement.

“We hope more people will register for the waiting list when it is extended. Being on the waiting list is a chance to move forward in the queue, but it is no guarantee of being vaccinated, because only a few vaccines are left over,” she added.

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  1. Hi Guys
    I have already had the 1st vaccine in the uk but how do i go about getting the second one here

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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