Catalonia to start flu and coronavirus vaccinations in residences at end of September

The health department will begin Get flu and COVID-19 vaccines It will be open to residential users at the end of September, and will be expanded to people over 60 years old, vulnerable groups or people with risk factors and professionals from October 15.This is this week’s Wednesday Minister Manel BalcellsOn Tuesday, the Ministry of Health announced after a meeting with the autonomous regions that the vaccination campaign will be brought forward a week: it will no longer start in the first week of October, but in the last week of September.

he Event preview The decision to vaccinate came after a slight increase in COVID-19 cases was detected, with about 130 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in primary care, three of which required hospitalization, according to the Ministry of Health.

At the start of the campaign, the Hipra vaccine was not yet available and was in the adaptation phase to new variants.

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The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Catalonia remains stable, with more than 5,000 people infected. In the week of September 4-10, 5,742 cases were diagnosed in primary care, a figure almost identical to the 5,731 cases in the previous week. For 10 consecutive weeks, Catalonia has seen an increase in virus incidence, but since the week of August 28, the curve has started to stabilize.

On the other hand, the number of hospital admissions increased last week, from 480 to 496 (+16), and the number of people admitted to the ICU increased from 14 to 17. 78.2% of admissions were over 60 years old. The global weekly rate was 98, compared with 122 the previous week.

omicron variants represented nearly 100% of sequenced samples. The XBB.1 subvariant was dominant (47.6% of samples). EG.5-Eris is a form of XBB.1 with a significantly increased proportion, accounting for 42.9% of XBB.1 samples. XBB2 accounts for 9.5% of the total.