El President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, believe that, on a stage “prudent and conservative“, the Executive’s forecast is that the vaccination rate gradually increase so that at the end of August the 70 percent of the population, 33 million Spanish, are immunized.
As lo avanz Snchez in an appearance after the meeting of the Minister council. According to his calculations, for the May 3, 5 million people will have been immunized, which will rise to the 10 million in the first week of June, a 15 million for the 14th of that month, until achieving 25 million people immunized by July 19.
“In the first week of June, we aim to achieve the ten million Spanish and Spanish. In the week of June 14or we will reach 15 million of vaccinated people. I announce that in the week ofl July 19 we want it to be 25 million of compatriots vaccinated people. We will consequently achieve that the 70 percent adult population, 33 million Spanish, they are immunized at the end of August “, affirmed Snchez.
87 million doses between April and September
In this second trimester, trust to receive 38 million doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Janssen -to start arriving in mid-April until arriving to 5.7 million in June-, which is 3.5 times more than those delivered by pharmacies until March.
“We have hired more than 87 million doses between April and September, which ensures that any compatriot can be vaccinated in that period, “said Snchez.
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The President of the Government, Pedro Snchez, at a press conference /EFE
In addition, the approval of the Curevac which, added to the previous ones, raise the number of vaccinations in the third trimester to 48 million. In total, Spain has contracted to receive 87 million doses between April and September.
Sánchez has invited us to join forces, taking advantage of the fact that Spain has an administration capacity of more than 3.5 million weekly doses: “We are going to join our forces to vaccinate and vaccinate and vaccinate without rest “.
And, in this journey, the massive campaign is “the shortest way to reactivate our country.” “Vaccination is the most effective economic policy“, has underlined.
Snchez: “We are at the beginning of the end of the pandemic”
The President of the Government believes that science is helping greatly to overcome this health crisis: “We are facing the beginning of the end of the pandemic thanks to science“.” The obstacle is enormous, but the solution will be even more so. Spain has an exit horizon. We can only regain full normality thanks to vaccination and we have already started doing it. The data do not reflect normal economic activity, but little by little we are recovering employment, “he also noted.
The Government does not plan to extend the state of alarm
Pedro Sanchez also announced that the Executive’s intention is not to extend the state of alarm once expiring on May 9.
“We want that on May 9 be the end point to the state of alarm and for that we work“, stated Snchez at a press conference at the Palacio de la Moncloa.
