Andalusia begins to vaccinate 70-year-olds with Janssen

  The Junta de Andalucía will begin tomorrow to inoculate the Janssen vaccine to 70-year-olds, after the completion of the new safety assessment carried out by the EMA and after its approval within the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System meeting this afternoon  in which the Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, has participated.  Specifically, Andalusia will administer the 26,150 doses from this laboratory that have been received today.  Despite this, the counselor has requested within the Council that, once this group is covered, the possibility of administering this vaccine in people under 70 be subjected to evaluation.

  On the other hand, in Andalusia the vaccination of the age group from 71 to 79 years with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is maintained and progress will continue with the vaccination of people between 60 and 65 years of age with AstraZeneca.  The group from 66 to 69 years old will begin to be vaccinated in a short period of time, once doses of the different vaccines are available.

  The head of Health and Families has required that the vaccines that were pending from the previous weeks reach Andalusia to level the population number with the rest of the Autonomous Communities.

  Finally, Aguirre has reiterated the request of Andalusia that Astrazeneca can be administered in children under 60 years of age who demand it voluntarily and that the doses of Pfizer and Moderna can be spaced since “we consider that it is important to follow this strategy to have  the largest number of people vaccinated with the first dose as soon as possible ”.

It's official: Andalusia sets the date for the announcement of the new measures

The meeting of experts will be held just a few days before the end of the state of alarm

The Junta de Andalucía has already set the date to establish what will be the new restrictions against the coronavirus in the face of an expected "downward trend" of epidemiological data, as stated yesterday by the Minister of Health, Jesús Aguirre, who yesterday He announced that this week the Committee of Experts might not be held.

And so it will be, then, as Elías Bendodo, counselor of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, has made it official in his press conference after the Andalusian Government Council, the meeting of the Committee of Experts will not be held this Wednesday as planned and yes it will be next week.

In this way, the holding of the meeting of experts that advises on the management of the covid pandemic will be held just one week before the current state of alarm decreed by the Government of Spain ends, on which Pedro Sánchez already He said two weeks ago that it would be "the last one."

More mobility

Although the no to the extension of the state of alarm has not yet been made official, Bendodo did want to address the President of the Government of Spain today to ask him, according to Europa Press, that, "immediately, the Conference of Presidents be convened" autonomous communities to address at that meeting, among other "priority" issues, that "we must start to open our hand" in the mobility options of people "immunized" against Covid-19 thanks to vaccination, to go recovering "progressively" normality after the pandemic.

Bendodo has remarked that "we cannot have locked up 615,000 people who are vaccinated and immunized" as those who now in Andalusia have the complete schedule of administered vaccination - two doses -, and has defended that these people have to be " lever for economic recovery and the gradual recovery of normality ".

"What are we going to wait for, until the 8.5 million Andalusians are vaccinated to begin to recover normality?", The spokesman counselor has asked himself, who in the face of this option defends that normality is gradually recovering "progressively , with immunized people, with people who have had a negative PCR or coronavirus test, or who have had the disease "and have antibodies.

"All this must be valued, because normality cannot be recovered from one day to the next" and "it is reasonable that it be done progressively based on how immunization is taking place," as Bendodo insisted.

From Eleanor Tolman

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