Health: This is how Spain is immunized against Covid from today
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"After very hard months, today is a day for hope
.
"
With this phrase, Isabel Díaz Ayuso reacted this Sunday to the historic milestone that was experienced in the capital when Nicanor, a resident in a Vallecas senior center, received the first vaccine in the region against Covid-19.
Although in the same message that she left written on her social networks, the president of the Community of Madrid did not abandon the opportunity to
launch a fine dart at the Government
, assuring that "the unprecedented health operation" that the Community of Madrid began this Sunday
" will be subject to sufficient dose distribution
.
"
It is the message that in recent days from its Executive do not stop repeating: the shortage of vaccines and the dropper with which they will arrive.
This Sunday, Madrid received 1,200 doses, which were distributed in three residences for the elderly
, and, in principle, every Monday for 12 weeks, including today, they will receive another 48,750 doses with which it will foreseeably be able to immunize all residents and workers of these centers for the elderly and health centers in the region.
In the same vein as the president, the Minister of Health,
Enrique Ruiz Escudero
, after cautiously celebrating the "good news" assured that
the vaccination of priority groups in the region is conditional on the number of doses they receive
and did not dare to establish a date in the calendar in which residents and seniors can be immunized.
What Escudero did say is that he
sees it as "difficult" for 70% of the population to be vaccinated at the end of the summer
, as Minister Salvador Illa indicated.
"At this rate of vaccination and with the number of doses received, it
is difficult to reach the horizon promised by the Government
since, from what the Ministry says, there are 200,000 vaccines and six million people live in Madrid. At that rate it is difficult" , the Cope chain collected by Europa Press said in an interview.
"We would have liked to receive many more," he
said in Ser, underlining that the Madrid Community is prepared to inoculate a high number of vaccines at the same time.
"In the same period (12 weeks), we have vaccinated 1,300,000 people against the flu. We could have reached more," said the counselor.
Escudero added that the important thing, with an eye to the possibility that the Moderna and Oxford vaccines will also arrive in January, is
"to have a lot of flexibility to adapt"
in case at some point they receive many doses in a short time.
The Minister of Health celebrated "the progress on the road" that Spain and Europe gave this Sunday against the coronavirus, although he
criticized that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has "played excessively with the emotion of receiving the vaccine
.
"
"The emotion must be handled with prudence and the use that the Government has made of its means has not seemed adequate," said Escudero.
The head of the Madrid Health
Department also reproached the Government for putting its logo on the packaging
of the vaccines and asked it to act with "more loyalty, coordination and prudence."
Despite the "good news", Escudero again asked
"great caution"
and continue with all the precautionary measures because the vaccination period will be long.
For his part, the vice president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, said that this Sunday is
a day "to remember"
with the elderly in residences receiving the first vaccine against Covid-19.
"Today is a day to remember. A day for history and for hope. A day of tribute and recognition to science and researchers. Thank you!
The beginning of the end of this damn virus
", wrote the vice president in his account from Twitter, along with the news of the first woman vaccinated in Spain, Araceli, 96 years old.
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