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The autonomous communities have agreed to provide the additional dose (popularly called the third dose) to the elderly institutionalized in residences.

So far, only patients in group 7 were going to get it.

This initiative, accepted by all the autonomous communities,

is one of the proposals that have been discussed this afternoon in the Interterritorial Council of the SNS

to be evaluated tomorrow by the Public Health Commission.

It should be remembered that within group 7 are people with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, people with a solid organ transplant or who are on the waiting list, people on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, those undergoing treatment for cancer, people people over 40 years of age with Down syndrome, and

those who suffer from an oncohematological disease

, a solid organ cancer being treated with chemotherapy or lung cancer being treated with chemotherapy or immunotherapy.

Regarding the vaccination in residences, it must be assessed whether it is done now or accompanied with the flu vaccine this year, according to regional sources have advanced to this newspaper.

Regarding vaccination, the groups that go the slowest

with the complete schedule are those from 20 to 29 and those from 30 to 39

, although practically all the groups are very close to 70% with the complete schedule.

75% vaccinated

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, began the press conference talking about the decrease in incidence. "AI has maintained a downward trend for five weeks. From last week to this it has varied

and has decreased by 32%

. The trend is observed in all age groups and little by little it is homogenizing. decrease in hospitalization and ICU beds (12%). The severity of this epidemic wave has been significantly less than previous ones and with 10 times fewer deaths. The delta variant continues to be the majority in diagnosed cases ".

Darias has pointed out that the vaccination program continues to develop very well, "after exceeding 70% of vaccination in our country, I have to tell you that this Wednesday Spain has reached

75% of people with a complete schedule, 3 out of 4 people

are completely vaccinated in our country. It costs more and more because there are fewer people to be vaccinated. We have more than 35.5 million people with a complete regimen in our country. According to the ECDC, in Europe with a complete regimen the figure is 60% ".

The minister has indicated that the immunization of people over 40 years of age, which is where the majority of severe cases occur, is almost complete.

In the Strategy we are also making progress in those under 40 years of age.

Darias has emphasized that "the pandemic is still there

, the virus is still among us, therefore the relaxation of measures would be desirable to do so progressively, gradually and within the shared scope that we do within the Interterritorial Council."

The minister also commented that Spain has become part of the WHO Standing Committee and as the representative of Spain, Amós García Rojas, president of the Spanish Society of Vaccination, has been appointed.

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