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Spain received the first 196,800 doses of the AstraZeneca and Oxford University vaccine against Covid-19 this Saturday, as reported by the Ministry of Health.

This vaccine will be administered only to people between the ages of 18 and 55, as agreed by the Ministry and the Autonomous Communities within the Public Health Commission of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System.

Spain thus 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, compared to others such as the United Kingdom that do inoculate it in people over that age .

Last week, the European Medicines Agency (EMA, for its acronym in English) recommended authorizing the vaccine from this pharmaceutical for adults, also in the case of those over 65 years of age.

In any case, each country decides on this issue.

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.

The COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine is given as two injections in the arm, the second between 4 and 12 weeks after the first.

At the meeting this Friday, it has been approved that the recommended interval in the administration is 10 to 12 weeks between the first and second doses, as announced by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, after the celebration of the Interterritorial Council of the System National Health Department on February 3.

This same Health Commission agreed this week that from the age of 80 only vaccines based on mRNA would be administered, that is, those from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

Four million vaccines in February

Spain will receive this month about four million doses of the three vaccines against Covid-19 authorized so far by the European Medicines Agency, which will allow to immunize two million people, about 4 percent of the Spanish population.

Specifically, there will be up to 1,810,575 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as well as 1,779,579 of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine - to which will be added another batch of 2,750,040 in March - and up to 412,000 doses of the immunization by Moderna.

With it, as well as others that may be approved in Europe such as Janssen, Novavax and Curevac, Health expects that around the months of March and April there will be a "very significant" increase in the doses available in Spain.

The forecast that the Executive manages is to reach the summer with 70 percent of the Spanish population immunized, more than 33 million people.

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