• Direct. Last minute on the coronavirus

The meeting of the Interterritorial Health Council this afternoon has revolved around two issues: to follow the evolution of the pandemic in the middle of Christmas and to analyze the vaccination process that began yesterday.

This has been assured by

Salvador Illa

, Minister of Health, at the press conference this Monday, in which he appeared alongside the Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function,

Carolina Darias

;

and the Director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies,

Fernando Simón

.

The minister has insisted on the importance of complying with the restriction measures on such designated dates and has warned: "We

must keep our guard not high, but very high

. Christmas Eve is a special date, New Year's Eve is more given to festive celebrations and concern she's very tall".

Despite the caution she has requested, Illa thanked the citizens for their behavior, which, according to her assessment, has been "very exemplary, they are very aware of the messages we have been giving and have made an effort to comply with the restrictions."

Regarding the possibility of tightening the established restrictions, he has indicated that it is up to the communities to implement them or not.

Regarding the vaccination campaign, Illa has stated that there has been an update of the information regarding the receipt of vaccines by Pfizer.

"We

will

receive

369,525 doses tomorrow by air

on four flights that arrive in Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Vitoria and the Canary Islands and from there they will be distributed to more than a hundred points established with the CCAA. In the islands, Ceuta and Melilla we will have the support of the Armed Forces ", he explained.

Regarding the way in which patients will be summoned so that they can be vaccinated, the minister has not been able to specify much, only that the regions

are working according to various databases

, "all available".

"The doses are distributed equitably and based on data that appear in official sources and are assigned to the CCAA according to the priority groups. I want to remember that Spain has acquired many more doses than it will need, we are going to use them in cooperation ", has added.

Regarding those who decline to be vaccinated, Illa recalled that the vaccine is not mandatory.

"We think that getting vaccinated

is positive for oneself and for other people

, but those who do not want to are within their rights. We are going to make a communication effort," he said.

This "effort" includes the forthcoming launch of the Government of the website

www.vacunacovid.gob.es

, which aims to "resolve all the doubts of the citizens. Getting vaccinated saves lives. We know this, the way out of this pandemic is vaccination and we will continue to work hard to communicate this. "

For his part, Darias has commented that around

350,000 weekly doses will arrive until reaching the established 4.5 million

.

"We have a National Health System that knows how to do things. We know that this vaccination process is complex," said the minister, who stated that the objective is to receive vaccines in the best conditions, that is, with a cumulative incidence (AI) -number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days- as low as possible.

Regarding the Council meeting, Darias stressed that it was carried out with

optimism and hope

, but with caution.

"Optimism and hope for the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine. Araceli and Mónica, the first vaccinated in Castilla-La Mancha, represented a new hopeful stage, as did Antonio in Andalusia, Emilio in Aragón, Pepita in Asturias, Doria Anatoria Canarias, María Dolores Cantabria, Áureo in Castilla y León, Josefa in Catalonia, Gonzalo in Ceuta, Nicanor in Madrid, Benild e in Valencia, Vicente in Extremadura, Nieves in Galicia Avelina in the Balearic Islands, Javier in La Rioja, Rosa María Melilla, Francisco in Navarra, Begoña in the Basque Country and Josefa in Murcia ".

In this way, the minister has declared that "we have also wanted to have present all these CCAA symbol of the co-governance and decentralization of this country and how we have carried the vaccines by common agreement."

The higher transmissibility of the British strain is unclear

Asked about the transmissibility of the new British strain, Simón has stated that "it is possible that it has greater transmissibility due to modifications in the spicule that allow better fixation to the cell than other strains. This fact could confer greater transmissibility, but for this there must be a much greater increase in incidence. There has not been such a significant variation. "

For this reason, "all doubts about this possible transmissibility have not yet been cleared up," he repeated.

At this point, the epidemiologist has detailed that "the United Kingdom came from a period of decline and went into a period of ascent that coincided with this occupation of space by the strain, but the evolution if we look at it is not so different with respect to other countries and Spain ".

The average age of those infected falls in the second wave

"In the first wave, serious cases were detected that went to the healthcare service and were hospitalized," explained Simón.

"

They were detected over 60% in ICUs, over 50% in hospitals

", he specified, and pointed out: "Now we detect around 70%, some studies indicate that around 80% and even 90%, that is, milder cases are detected and, therefore, in younger people. It is logical to expect that during the second wave the average age will drop,

we have gone from an average of 63 years to an average age of less than 40 years

".

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