Executive summary All around the world, community pharmacies have remained open as an essential service throughout the pandemic, ensuring access to medicines and personal protective equipment, delivering medicines to patients’ homes, providing evidence-based advice to the community, producing and dispensing hand sanitisers and, in several countries, participating in screening strategiesthrough antigen point-of-care tests. Community pharmacies and pharmacists are now at the disposal of our population and health authorities to facilitate a quick, safe and fully professional mass vaccination strategy against COVID-19, flu and other vaccine-preventable diseases. 

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