December the 28th, 2020 – The Pfizer vaccine might be here and the number of new infections in Croatia might be dropping, but Radimir Cacic still isn’t confident cafes, restaurants and other catering and hospitality facilities will be open before spring comes around.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, in Varazdin County, which suffered horribly recently with the spread of the novel coronavirus, vaccination is beginning with the most vulnerable group in a Home for the Elderly which has 360 beds.
Radimir Cacic, the Varazdin County Prefect, explained what the vaccination plan for that particular previously hard hit Croatian county is going to look like.
”I’m definitely going to get vaccinated, but unfortunately, regardless of my age, I’m not going to be among the first to receive it. I won’t be in the first group of people. Dr. Proskura, who is 88 years old and who is one of the users of the home, as far as I know, will be the first citizen of Varazdin County to be vaccinated today. After the first five vaccinations here [in the home for the elrderly], employees at the Varazdin Emergency and General Hospital will be vaccinated. There are 525 vaccines all together at the minute, so we’ll deal with this quickly,” Radimir Cacic said in conversation with RTL.
According to all statistical indicators, the number of newly infected people is, thankfully, declining.
“It was allvery clear. I understand the caution, but we’ve seen a decline in all indicators for four weeks now. Therefore, there can be no coincidence anymore. Things are completely clear. We’ve dropped from over 1200 to just over 300 newly infected people today. So the incidence has been reduced by four times. Now we’re looking at completely different numbers,” stated Radimir Cacic.
He also commented on the return of life to more normal conditions and the abolition of anti-epidemic measures.
“That won’t be done before we’ve finished with vaccinating the most high-risk groups of people, so I don’t expect much before spring. The measures will most certainly remain in place until spring,” concluded Radimir Cacic.
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