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The first vaccines for teachers from Almeria arrive
The process will take several weeks, according to the Board
The vaccination against the coronavirus for Infant, Primary and Secondary teachers in the province of Almería has already officially begun.
Without official figures as of press time, more than 500 teachers, all of them under 55 years of age, have received the first dose of AstraZeneca, the vaccine already authorized for the population under that age.
Only in the Northern Health Management Area of Almería, which includes municipalities in the Levante and Almanzora regions, 430 doses were administered yesterday. To this figure must be added the records in the health districts of Almería (capital, Nacimiento and Andarax, Níjar and Carboneras regions) and Poniente, to which the municipalities of La Alpujarra belong.
Yesterday, the mass vaccination point in the capital, in the Palace of the Mediterranean Games, operated throughout the day from nine in the morning to nine at night.
17,000 until Monday
Until the morning of last Monday the vaccination schedule has been completed in a total of 215,021 people in Andalusia who have already been injected with the two doses (2.54% of the population), of which 16,894 are from Almería; 29,886 from Cádiz; 24,335 from Córdoba; 26,616 from Granada; 12,895 from Huelva; 19,148 from Jaén; 37,787 from Malaga and 47,460 from Seville.
At the regional level, this Monday began the vaccination of Infant, Primary and Secondary Education teachers, a process that could take place over several weeks, the Board clarified in a statement.
In this sense, the Central Trade Union Independent and Civil Servants, CSIF, urges the Administration, both educational and health, to establish a calendar for priority vaccination also of teaching staff over 55 years, made up of some 20,000 professionals in Andalusia , to which, at the moment - according to current recommendations - cannot be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca serum, which will be administered to the youngest teachers.
Specifically, in the province of Almería this group is made up of 1,648 professionals, which represents 16.6 percent of the province's teachers.
CSIF values that the Autonomous Administration has decided to give preference to teachers in vaccination against Covid-19 as a group at high risk of exposure to contagion, as the union central has repeatedly requested, although it demands "certainties about how will proceed with the educational group over 55 years, who must also be vaccinated ".
This has been stated by the Education Sector, which has stressed that "now that, fortunately, the youngest teachers are starting to be vaccinated, the Board must also seek a solution for the group over 55 years old."