SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 14 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Health plans to complete the vaccination process for the 50-59 age group between May and June, month in which the inoculation of the pfirst dose for the next age group (between 40 to 49 years). The head of Health, Julio García Comesaña, has called the “Prudence” before the announcement of this Thursday by the State Government regarding the availability of a greater number of doses of ‘Pfizer’ than expected, although he has recognized that the news allows to address with certain “optimism” the next weeks of the vaccination plan.
Specifically, Sanidade has an estimate of 150,000 vaccines of that brand per week during the month of June, which would represent between 5.3 and 5.5% of the total that Spain receives and that they would correspond to the percentage of population that the community has in that age group. In statements to the media this Friday, Comesaña has appealed to “prudence” given the antecedents of “big news” that, for various reasons, “are not fulfilled.” Among them, he mentioned the recent case of ‘Janssen’ that “due to a problem in the factory” are not arriving, or the “already known of ‘AstraZeneca’, which is” limiting “and” tying down “all the planning of the second doses.
In any case, it has recognized that the planning of the process and the availability of a greater number of units than expected allows to say “with a certain optimism” that Galicia will be able to complete the group between 50 and 59 years old “with two doses” between the months of May and June. In this sense, “Everything seems to indicate” that the process will go “faster if possible” given this increase in the number of ‘Pfizer’ vaccinesTherefore, “it is quite probable” that Sanidade could start with the 40 to 49-year-old group “earlier than expected”, in the month of June itself.
