Andalusia’s 2023-24 influenza vaccination campaign: balance after 5 weeks

It has been 5 weeks since the event started in Andalusia on October 9, 2023 and now The number of people vaccinated against influenza has exceeded one million, specifically 1,017,220 people, a number very similar to the number of registrants 5 weeks before the previous event. 46.2% of the doses purchased for this event have been used. On the other hand, 696,408 people have been vaccinated with the new vaccine containing the XBB.1.5 variant, so 49.2% of available doses have been administered.

As of October 30, all the most important risk groups within the target groups have been opened to receive appointments, and from here all those in the Andalusian target groups who have not yet been vaccinated continue to be encouraged to do so before the arrival of winter Protect yourself as soon as possible.

The vaccination coverage among the system-vaccinated population is distributed by age group as shown in the figure below:

In terms of the population of children under 5 years old, 57,903 boys and girls aged 6 to 59 months have been vaccinated so far, with a coverage rate of 21.2%, which is higher than the same period in the previous campaign. Among children aged 6 to 23 months, coverage reached 28.9%.

In this campaign, adults 60 and older are getting flu shots (instead of 65 and older in the previous campaign) and flu coverage has reached 36.0% and COVID-19 coverage has reached 26.8%, very high numbers and Previous events were similar. As for those over 80 years old, more than half (56.6%) have been vaccinated.

Remember, those most at risk of flu complications are people over 60 and under 5 years old. As the chart below shows, they are the people with the highest number of hospitalizations during Spain’s 2022-23 flu season:

To consult more data on the current vaccination campaign in Andalusia, it is recommended to visit the website of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (IECA), updated weekly (every Monday).

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