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The Minister of Health, Ana Barcelo, has advanced that the Ministry could begin to supply the third dose of the vaccine to those over 70 years between October 15 and 25. The head of Health has made these statements after the meeting of the interdepartmental commission in which the new measures of the Generalitat to fight against the coronavirus. It was precisely thanks to the success of the vaccination process so the Generalitat Valenciana has decided to end most of the restrictions that were still in effect.
The The success of the vaccine has made the fifth wave much less deadly than previous ones And, therefore, the Ministry prefers to start the administration of the booster doses approved by the Ministry of Health and by the European Medicines Agency as soon as possible. Specifically, and according to official figures from the National Institute of Statistics, in the Valencian Community there are about 276,000 people aged 80 or over and another 437,000 who are between 70 and 79. In principle, this group, made up of more than 714,000 people, would be the candidate at the third dose although, in practice, they will be a few less.
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