The Health Ministry hopes new coronavirus cases will continue to fall for at least another three or four days and is warning against relaxation of measures too soon
Spainâs Covid-19 vaccination campaign is entering the final stages of the process of immunizing residents of senior residences, while the majority of healthcare workers have also received their first jab â many have also got the second. Meanwhile, the final part of this first phase, inoculating adults with need for daily assistance even if they are not in residential care, has begun in the Canary Islands, Murcia and Navarre. This process is expected to get going in the rest of the country before the middle of February.
EL PAÃS has collected statistics in an attempt to take a snapshot of where the vaccination process has got to in Spain and these are the principal conclusions. Despite a year having passed since the first coronavirus infections having been detected in the country, the system for collecting data on the health crisis is still deficient. The Health Ministry has not centralized the collection of information on the vaccination process and just 11 of the countr
Spainâs plans for its Covid-19 vaccination campaign are shrouded by mystery. The confidentiality of the contracts that have been signed with the manufacturers means that the public is only receiving a trickle of information about the details of which vaccines will be arriving, in what quantities, and when.
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The new health minister, Carolina Darias, revealed on Wednesday that 1.8 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would arrive in February. She also announced that 2.7 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were due to be delivered in March. With these forecasts, the ministry believes it will be possible to achieve the objective that both Spain and the European Union have set: vaccinating 80% of the countryâs over-80s by the end of next month. To meet this challenge, only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be used, as was decided on Wednesday at a meeting of the Inter-Territorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS), which brings tog
The figures from the first wave of the coronavirus in Spain will never be fully known. The system was so overwhelmed, and the capacity to carry out tests so limited, that only approximate statistics covering what happened between the end of the winter and the start of the spring in 2020 will ever be available. The situation was probably worse than the current one, but what has just been seen in January 2021 is reminiscent of the darkest months of the health crisis so far. By a long way, the first month of this year is the worst since the summer â since we have had reliable, homogeneous data â with practically double the number of cases diagnosed compared to October and November, and hospitalizations around 40% above the latter month, which was when the highest number of admissions was registered since there has been reliable data.
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