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MASS immunisation of people across Valencia cannot immediately start because of a lack of shots available to the region’s health services. President of the Valencia government Ximo Puig stressed the “fundamental” thing was to ensure all priority groups received a shot this month. He said he was committed to “decisive” progress in the vaccination programme with more doses arriving. “We are going to receive more than 60,000 vaccines from the […]

SPANISH health chiefs have ruled the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccination for Covid-19 will only be used for people aged under 55; leaving out 15 million Spaniards above that age. The decision only came after three meetings by the health service´s public health commission made up of central government experts and representatives of the regions. It means changes for the country´s vaccination programme, currently reaching the end of phase 1 that gave shots […]

NEW health minister Carolina Darias believes Spain will meet its target of vaccinating 80% of people aged over 80 against Covid-19 by the end of March – an objective set out at the beginning of the programme. She said 1.8 million doses of the Astra-Zeneca-Oxford vaccine would be received over February and a further 2.7 million shots of Pfizer-BionNTech would arrive in March. However, the minister said only the Pfizer […]

SPAIN is “open” is using the Russian vaccine Sputnik V as long as the jab wins the approval of the European health regulators, new health minister Carolina Darias said. Named after the Soviet-era satellite used in the space race with the United States, use of the Covid vaccination faced international criticism when Russia began administering it before large-scale trials. However, respected medical journal The Lancet has looked at data from […]

REGIONAL health minister Ana Barceló says an investigation is underway into how 62 people in Valencia – including 10 public officers – jumped the queue to receive Covid-19 shots. Those facing the detailed probe did not apparently fit criteria of risk groups in the first phase of the vaccination programme. Initially 223 people were identified as potential cheats – the numbers were pruned back when it was discovered 177 were […]

NEW restrictions came into force today (Wednesday) in Spain restricting air passengers from Brazil and South Africa to nationals and legal residents. Passengers stopping in Spain while on their way to a destination in another country will be allowed to enter for up to 24 hours but will not be permitted to leave the airport. Spanish government spokeswoman Maria Jesus Montero said the new rules would remain in force for […]

SPANISH Health Minister Carolina Darias has insisted the country will meet its target of having 70% of the population vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of summer. She said the other national target of getting jabs in arms of 80% of people aged over 80 and health workers by the end of next month was still on course. Governments across Europe have been forced to deal with delays in shipments […]