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COVID-19 vaccination and prioritisation strategies

ECDC provides EU/EEA countries with information on factors that may affect the choice of COVID-19 vaccination strategies, according to different target groups and based on scenarios of hypothetical vaccine characteristics.

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Get vaccinated!

Should I vaccinate my children? Many infectious diseases are very rare today thanks to vaccination, so the negative consequences of these diseases are sometimes forgotten. However, if people stopped being vaccinated, many of these diseases and related outbreaks could return.

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Vaccination Portal

The recently launched European Vaccination Portal provides accurate, objective, up-to-date evidence on vaccines and vaccination.

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Vaccination schedule

See and compare vaccination schedules in EU/EEA countries.

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Data

Data on hospital and ICU admission rates and current occupancy for COVID-19

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Data on the daily subnational 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases

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Data on testing for COVID-19 by week and country

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Data on 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases and deaths

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Publication

Communicable disease threats report, 14-20 February 2021, week 7

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Behavioural Insights research to support the response to COVID-19: a survey of implementation in the EU/EEA

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Mumps - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018

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Detection and characterisation capability and capacity for SARS-CoV-2 variants within the EU/EEA

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The launch of joint Response Measures Database

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ECDC releases COVID-19 vaccination rollout strategies for EU/EEA

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First COVID-19 vaccine authorised for use in the European Union

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ECDC to assess risk associated with spread of SARS-CoV-2 in mink farms

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Event

World Refugee Day 2019

20 Jun 2019

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ISIRV and ECDC influenza epidemiology meeting 16-18 January 2019

16 Jan 2019 - 18 Jan 2019
Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 2018

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Joint WHO/Europe–ECDC Annual European Influenza Surveillance Meeting, 2018

6 Jun 2018 - 8 Jun 2018
Copenhagen, Denmark
May 2018

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ECDC Expert meeting on non-pharmaceutical countermeasures for Pandemic flu

16 May 2018 - 17 May 2018
Stockholm, Sweden

Data

Data on country response measures to COVID-19

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Data on hospital and ICU admission rates and current occupancy for COVID-19

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Data on the daily subnational 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases

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Polio interactive map

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Vaccine-preventable diseases

Childhood immunisation

Vaccine hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services.

Vaccine safety

How safe are vaccines?

Vaccine efficacy / effectiveness

How well does the vaccine work?

Vaccination coverage

The proportion of the EU population who receive the recommended vaccine against diseases.

EU vaccination schedules

The Vaccine Schedule is an ECDC tool and interactive platform of vaccination schedules for individual European countries and specific age groups.

Immunisation Information Systems

Strong information systems to digitally record information about vaccination, Immunisation Information Systems (IIS), are an integral part of well-functioning vaccine programmes.

European Immunisation Week

European Immunisation Week (EIW) is celebrated across the European Region every April to raise awareness of the importance of immunization for people’s health and well-being.

Communication

Infographics and videos

Communication material on immunisation; Infographics and videos.

Vaccine-preventable diseases

Japanese encephalitis

The Japanese encephalitis virus is present in Asia, from Japan to India and Pakistan, and outbreaks are erratic and spatially and temporally limited phenomena, occurring quite unpredictably, even if all conditions appear to be present in a definite place. It is a leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia, with 30-50,000 cases reported annually. Most human infections are asymptomatic. On average, one person in 200 infected develops a severe neuroinvasive illness. The case fatality rate in patients with severe disease is 20- 30% 

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Disease networks

EUVAC.Net

European Invasive Bacterial Disease Surveillance Network (EU-IBD)

European Diphtheria Surveillance Network (EDSN)