AstraZeneca starts again in the province of Almería (coming my way soon, hopefully)
https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noti...zeneca-regresa-hoy-a-mas-de-2-300-almerienses
Google translation:
AstraZeneca returns today to more than 2,300 people from Almeria
The vaccine is re-administered to professionals who were already receiving it
More than 2,300 people will be in charge of giving the starting signal in the province today to return to the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine after it was suddenly paused last week due to doubts about its side effects.
It will be the groups that were already receiving it before the stoppage (health workers, teachers and members of the State Security Forces and Bodies) who will follow it from this morning, although, as indicated by sources from the Health delegation to LA VOICE, the 2,000 people from Almería who will receive it belong to the health districts of Poniente, with 1,000 doses, and of Almería, with 1,300, and it will also be administered this Wednesday to firefighters in the North Health Management Area, which includes the Levante and from Alto Almanzora.
Thus, the same sources point out, in the North district the second doses of Pfizer vaccines will be administered throughout the day to people over 80 years of age, who will also receive it, as usual, this Wednesday in the Poniente and Poniente districts. Almeria.
Stored dose
Specifically, as pointed out by the Junta de Andalucía after learning of the decision taken on Monday by the Ministry of Health to resume vaccination with AstraZeneca from today, the doses that had been stored pending to be inoculated will be administered, as well as almost 18,000 others that They will arrive throughout the week for the entire autonomous community.
Thus, today the Junta de Andalucía is going to remove from the 'freezer' the 1,200 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that it decided to keep immobilized since last March 12, when the alarm was raised about the possible complications that had arisen in patients who had received the vaccine. So far, in the province of Almería, a total of 19,627 citizens have received doses of AstraZeneca before their 'stand by'.
In the same way, on Monday it was known that Health also approved expanding the age range of those vaccinated with AstraZeneca to 65 years, a request that the autonomous community of Andalusia had made on numerous occasions since the arrival of the vaccine in our country.
After the decision, Jesús Aguirre pointed out, all those people between 55 and 65 years old who are pending to be vaccinated from essential groups previously vaccinated until 55, such as security forces and bodies, teaching personnel and home help, among others, and start vaccination as soon as possible with all 65-year-olds (those born in 1956) and progressively continue with those aged 64, 63, and so on.
More than 100,000
The return of vaccination with the controversial vaccine in the United Kingdom arrives in the province on the day that more than 100,000 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna and 34,283 are already immunized after having received the two doses of the vaccines, which That does not prevent, as the health authorities continuously point out, that the immunized person does not get infected, but rather reduces the severity with which the coronavirus attacks the body.
In the entire autonomous community, so far the Junta de Andalucía has administered a total of 1,239,809 doses of the vaccine against covid-19 and, specifically, 445,365 people have already received the complete vaccine with the two doses, while 349,079 only have the first one.
By provinces, as indicated by the Andalusian Ministry of Health and Families in its daily coronavirus statement, in Seville a total of 269,360 doses have been administered and 98,862 people have already completed the vaccine, while in Malaga the total dose amounts to now to 214,284 and the people with both already inoculated are 77,724.
To the queue
For its part, in the province of Cádiz there are 166,708 vaccines already administered and people with the two doses add up to 60,099; in Granada, 147,382 those administered and 54,761 people with both; and in Córdoba, 147,127 the doses and 53,763 the people with the complete schedule of the vaccine.
And Almería, as usual since the beginning of the vaccination, on December 28, 2020, continues to be among the least vaccinated, despite already having 108,600 people the first dose. Worse numbers, meanwhile, presents Huelva, where the vaccines are 77,359 and 26,060 people already have both.