The goal of this campaign is to vaccinate 60% of the vaccinated population
The Ministry of Health will start this activity on Monday (16th) Influenza and Covid-19 new variant combined vaccination, starting with seniors in residences, day centers and health professionals. A week later, on Monday 23rd, the campaign will start for the general population at health centers; while the date for children’s influenza vaccination is set for November 3rd.
This year, new flu prevention measures include vaccinating children aged 6 to 59 months and classifying smokers as a risk group. In this sense, Health Minister Manuela García recalled that our goal is to be able to vaccinate 60% of the population and to improve the vaccination coverage data from the last campaign, when the vaccination coverage in the islands The rate reached 48%. Well below that number. results achieved last season. “Vaccines save lives and eliminate diseases,” he added.
The ministry has a budget of more than €3 million and will distribute 266,800 doses of influenza vaccine. Of those, 140,000 doses are adjuvanted influenza vaccines, 4,800 doses are high-load vaccines for particularly vulnerable seniors, and 22,000 doses are intranasal vaccines for children.