Who can make an appointment and how to apply

For those who are institutionalizedIts administration will be carried out by health professionals from the health districts of Castile and León, who will visit these institutions to receive both vaccines. Their presence will be used to vaccinate the professionals working there.

Health and social care staff will be able to receive both vaccines in the workplace, By reference to Occupational Health Services.

What about the rest?

For people aged 60 and above or under 60 with risk factors, Each health district will determine where vaccinations are available and how to make appointments.

Based on their social, demographic and health status, etc.

Vaccination Appointment Requests can be made three days before October 10 Through the usual channels such as the Sacyl Conecta app, the phone number of your health center and the Castile and Leon Health Portal. The bulk of the vaccination campaign will take place in October, November and the first half of December, although health centers always have a surplus of vaccine for those who wish to receive it later.

Who is the target audience for this campaign?

It targets people who are at higher risk of complications from the flu and who may spread the flu to others who are at higher risk of complications.

The vaccine is recommended for people aged 60 or older; Persons confined to disability centers and nursing homes for five years or more, as well as other long-term institutionalized persons and residents of closed institutions.

Additionally, it solves Under 60 years old with the following dangerous diseases, such as diabetes Cushing’s syndrome, morbid obesity, chronic cardiovascular, neurological, or respiratory diseases including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, and asthma, such as recipients of blood products and multiple transfusions, asplenia, or severe splenic dysfunction , chronic liver disease, including chronic alcoholism, severe neuromuscular disease, immunosuppression, including primary immunodeficiency and immunodeficiency caused by HIV infection or drugs, and transplant recipients and complement deficiencies.

Additionally, it targets cancer and hematological malignancies, cerebrospinal fluid fistulas and cochlear implants or pending, celiac disease, chronic inflammatory diseases, conditions and diseases that cause cognitive impairment; Down syndrome, dementia, etc.), and Pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and women in the postpartum period (within 6 months postpartum and not vaccinated); People living with highly immunosuppressed people; Except those working in health and social care centres, and those involved in essential services personnel, such as agents of national security forces and agencies, firefighters, civil defense personnel.

Sahil rules out the possibility of vaccinating the general population against COVID-19 No dangerous pathology and under 60 years of age. The health minister said a few days ago that there would only be another scenario if a highly pathogenic variant emerged, which was “extremely unlikely” as viruses usually evolve into milder forms.