Valencia on track for ‘best yet’ vaccination week
People aged from 66 to 69 will start to be ‘invited’ for jabs next week
THE REGIONAL health authority was due to administer nearly 250,000 Covid-19 vaccinations this week – a substantial increase on last week’s effort of 185,000.
Regional councillor for health Ana Barceló said they would continue inoculating over this weekend ‘if it was necessary’.
This would allow them to reach the ‘optimum rhythm which we all want and we have been preparing for’.
“We are ready to receive half a million doses a week and to administer all of them without delay,” she said.
This was due to the ‘limitless commitment’ of healthcare professionals and the installation of mass vaccination centres in many points of the region.
This week a total 174,330 doses are available from Pfizer – with 60,840 for Alicante province, 25,740 for Castellón province and 87,750 for Valencia province.
Sra Barceló noted that most of these will be second
jabs for people in their 70s and those with a high level of dependency, while 60,000 vaccines will be first jabs for people in their 70s.
A total of 9,120 doses from Moderna will be first jabs for people designated as being ‘high risk’.
An estimated 55,240 doses from AstraZeneca will be
used for people born between 1956 and 1961 (60 to 65 year olds).
The single dose Janssen jab was for people aged 70 to 79 who live in rural areas, with 14,890 doses available this week.
She noted on Wednesday that 35.59% of the population who have to be vaccinated
against Covid-19 in the Valencia region have now had at least one jab.
Who is next in line for the jab?
Sra Barceló explained that people aged from 66 to 69 (born between 1952 and 1955) will start to be ‘invited’ for jabs next week.
They will by contacted by text message or a phone call, which will give them information on when and where their vaccination will take place.
A health authority spokesperson said: “If the person has not given a mobile phone number to accompany their SIP card then the healthcare staff will call the landline which they have registered.”
Initially the AstraZenenca vaccine was only approved in Spain for people aged 65 and under, but this was extended to include all people in their 60s.
Next week
As Costa Blanca News went to press Valencia president Ximo Puig announced that the region will receive 401,400 vaccine doses for next week.
This will allow them to accelerate the inoculations, he said. There will be 187,200 from Pfizer, 168,000 from Astrazeneca, from 32,800 from Moderna, and 13,400 from Jannsen.