Catalonia The event starts this Tuesday Get flu vaccine and covid-19 vaccine at the same time he has done it Residential. The first phase, which will last three weeks, will immunize seniors living in nursing homes, home care patients and people in other institutions. Left out for now, waiting for more doses of the vaccine to arrive. staff member in these centres.
Salut expects to receive 200,000 doses next week to simultaneously immunize residents and workers
Nursing home staff asked the Ministry of Health to use the visit to the center as an opportunity to immunize them as well. Minister of Public Health, Government House, Carmen Cabezasexplaining that they have now arrived “Very little” dosage. He also assured that when more vaccines arrive, residents and workers will be vaccinated at the same time.
Cabezas said more than 65,000 residents of nursing homes in Catalonia could be immunized using the vaccines Salut currently has.Their prediction is that starting in the first week of October, some 200,000 doses per week. “Starting next week, if these 200,000 doses do arrive, we will be vaccinating them at the same time. But as long as we get the right vaccine to the residents, they will understand that we are prioritizing the residents,” Cabezas said.
Another year, the symbolic start of the vaccination campaign in Feixa Llarga Laia González’s residence in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat. In 2020, Catalonia received its first COVID-19 vaccine there, and the beneficiary was 89-year-old resident Josefa Pérez.
The first vaccines will therefore target the “most vulnerable” groups to covid-19 and influenza, and from October 16 Salut plans to launch a mass campaign targeting people over 60 years old, patients with dangerous diseases, pregnant women and health professionals personnel.
COVID-19, stable
The Minister of Public Health explained that according to current epidemiological indicators, covid-19 is in a stable state in Catalonia and there is no “rush” to start vaccinations, except for the groups described in the first phase of the campaign.
When asked whether old doses of the vaccine could be used, Cabezas stressed that they would receive the vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which approved the vaccine at the end of August, which is why Cabezas believes that arriving There are fewer vaccines. September, with more expected in October.