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The Public Health Commission of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System has finally decided that the AstraZeneca vaccine, of which

the first doses will begin to arrive this weekend,

will be administered only to people between 18 and 55 years old. .

This has been decided by the Commission in the third meeting held this week in which it has been deliberating whether the age cutoff should be established at 65 or 55, according to sources who have participated in that Commission have informed Efe.

Trials conducted by AstraZeneca in the UK, Brazil and South Africa showed that the vaccine was safe and effective in preventing Covid-19 in people of the age of majority.

These studies involved about 24,000 people in total, but most of them were between the ages of 18 and 55, so

there are not enough results in older participants

to provide an efficacy figure for it in that range.

In this way, Spain follows in the wake of other European countries such as France, Germany or Belgium that have recommended its use only for those under 65 years of age due to lack of evidence on its effectiveness, the United Kingdom, however, is injecting it to people over the age of 65. that age.

The first doses that will arrive this weekend will be for

personnel who are not first-line and who work in health and social health centers and establishments

, according to the definition contained in the Vaccination Strategy approved by the Health.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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