Spain will have 80 million doses to vaccinate against Covid

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Spain will have about 80 million immunizations, as indicated by health sources, according to the contracts signed in the EU and the percentage of 10% that corresponds to Spain, as previously mentioned.

"The contracts to be signed with the European Commission reach about 1,400 million doses, around 800 million immunizations since most vaccines for now consist of two doses. The distribution by country is made by quota and

".

Health has explained that although this amount is much higher than the Spanish population, it is very important to understand that it is common in the process of advance purchases of drugs that are under development with a very wide variability, "to ensure the success of some of them, since some may not have an authorization from the European Medicines Agency and cannot be used and thus ensure, on the one hand,

and, on the other hand, contribute to increase vaccine production capacity for other regions of the world that do not have access to production ".

"We are sharing risk" with the companies to be able to have vaccines as soon as possible, explained María Jesús Lamas, director of the Spanish Agency for Medicines (Aemps), who accompanied Fernando Simón in his appearance on Monday.

The strategy, therefore, "consists of anticipating production so that they can respond" to vaccination needs, which, as Lamas recalled, "are global."

The director of the AEMPS recalled that

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Five already have the contract signed or are in the process of signing it shortly, he added.

The coronavirus vaccination strategy, which will be approved this coming Tuesday during the Council of Ministers, "

according to scientific evidence and the response to vaccination. "They comment from Health, since it is not yet known for sure which vaccine will arrive first or the possible contraindications that each immunization may have.

If there are indications that say that a vaccine is not appropriate for a specific risk group that is among the first in the vaccination plan, it will be passed to the next group, sources from the Ministry of Health emphasize.

Although the Government does not rule out anything in its plan to end the pandemic, in principle it

.

From the Ministry they point out that in our country vaccination coverage is very high in children and somewhat less but also high in adolescents compared to Europe.

In no case are they mandatory, something that is not considered with the coronavirus vaccine either.

As in other vaccines that fight against other pathologies, there will be a plan to distribute and assign doses by autonomous communities, although it is an issue that has begun to be discussed and on it it does not seem that there will be progress this Tuesday when the strategy of vaccination.

What Health is going to carry out in the case of this specific vaccine is a

, that is, an evaluation for a long time after vaccination to verify that the drug, in this case the vaccine, is still effective and possible effects secondary that have not appeared in clinical trials.

The Ministry also assures that

, referring especially to the Pfizer vaccine that needs to be kept at -80 degrees.

And a final message for the population: it is certain that despite the vaccine it

since the immunizations will arrive in a staggered manner and at first there will still be viral transmission.

"We still do not know for sure the protection that these vaccines will provide or the number of people who have to be vaccinated to interrupt the transmission of the virus, so it will be essential to continue maintaining the measures."

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