The coronavirus pandemic calendar points to next December 15 as another key date to try to keep the virus at bay: that day begins the COVID-19 vaccination of children between the ages of 5 and 11.
The Public Health Commission authorized last Tuesday the immunization against Sars-CoV-2 of children between 5 and 11 years old, in the midst of what is already considered the sixth wave of the pandemic with a clear tendency to rise in infections.
Spain will receive in total 3.3 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the delivery of said vials will be distributed between December with the arrival of 1.3 million doses and January with 2 million units. The vaccines will be distributed to the autonomous communities “in proportion to the child population” that each one has. In Galicia, the population census between the ages of 5 and 11 is estimated at 156,000 and in the first consignment, that of December, they will be received around 60,000 units therefore, it will not be possible to immunize everyone before the Christmas holidays.
Only a third of Galician children between the ages of 5 and 11 will be able to receive the puncture in December. The Xunta has already advanced that the first to receive the vaccine will be those immunosuppressed and then it will go from older to younger, as in adults. It is estimated that the population between 9 and 11 years old in Galicia is 70,000 people, so the number of vials that will be received will not allow you to fall below that age range.
The Pfizer vaccine for children is also a double dose with the indication to leave a gap between the two of 3 weeks. Although the Xunta studied the possibility of vaccinating At the end of the educational centers, children will be immunized in the vaccination centers already used with adults and the idea of taking afternoon shifts is being considered so that classes are not interrupted.
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