Hospitalizations and intensive care unit occupation rates are also down, with the lowest percentage of Covid patients in regular beds since December 24
According to the new document, vulnerable groups under the age of 60 will get the vaccine once the inoculation of older demographics has been completed
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
Madrid regional premier Isabel DÃaz Ayuso said on Monday that she will consider making waiters and other people who work directly with the public a priority group for coronavirus vaccination.
âWe have analyzed the possibility of speeding up vaccination in highly exposed sectors such as teachers, taxi drivers, supermarket cashiers, waiters.â wrote the Popular Party (PP) leader on social media. âBut the first priority is to obtain vaccines for the most vulnerable people.â
In theory, it is the Spanish Health Ministry, not regional governments, who establishes the priority groups for inoculation. The first people to get their shots were residents and employees of care homes, followed by frontline health workers, other healthcare personnel, and people with need for daily assistance who are not living in a care facility. Other groups will come later following an as yet undefined schedule. Depending on how specific this list is, regional officials will have more or
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.