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 ”.