This newspaper has had access to different testimonies that relate how, indeed, they received a message through chats or WhatsApp groups informing them that calling a number, which corresponds to the information telephone number on vaccination against the coronavirus authorized by the Government, was scheduled to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. “For those born from 52 to 60 and by calling 971 ****** they give hours for this weekend with AstraZeneca vaccine. In case someone might be interested”, says the message that is still circulating. Due to this message, which went viral, at least since Friday the telephone line collapsed. However, those who were able to contact the service and made an appointment, after a series of checks and a quick questionnaire they were given an appointment for yesterday Saturday, today Sunday and even for this Monday in the Brothers Stairs.
A 68-year-old resident of Sa Teulera fOne of those that after receiving the WhatsApp he tried and after calling throughout Friday, late at night, he managed to contact the vaccine information service. As he relates, after the pertinent questions She got an appointment for her and her husband yesterday at five in the afternoon at the Germans Escales. At the vaccination point he met some friends to whom the message had also reached and who were also vaccinated. The woman and her husband were scheduled for the second dose on July 3.
Another testimony to which this newspaper has also had access, a woman living in Palma and who also managed to contact on Friday, She was referred to her GP when she stated that she has a previous pathology. The service number itself made the appointment for him. All the testimonies relate the operation of the same protocol when calling the number in question to be vaccinated. Other male, 65 years old, who also received the whatsapp through a group of friends, He made an appointment for next Monday afternoon at Germans Escales.
Gaps for refusal to vaccinate with AstraZeneca
From the Department of Health admit that appointments may have been made through this channel, although they insist that the main procedure is still waiting to receive the call with the appointment. In fact, People who have called this noon after receiving the message and who have managed to contact have no longer made an appointment and it has been explained to them that they should wait for the call.
The refusal of some people to get vaccinated with the serum of the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company generated alarm following five cases of thrombi and side effects in 0.2% of more than a million doses administered in Spain, it would have caused some gaps that would have been covered by callers.
For now Health will continue to be the one who will call to make an appointment to be vaccinated until in the coming weeks a system for requesting an appointment by phone or web will be launched similar to how it happens with the appointments of the technical inspection of vehicles ITV.
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