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Moreno announces the vaccination from the age of 16 next week and from the age of 12 in August.
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, announced this Thursday that next week vaccination will open for the first time to young people from the age of 16. In addition, she has reported that, predictably, in August children from 12 years of age will begin to be vaccinated. "The focus of infections is currently in young people. The delta variant is the predominant strain and is characterized by a very rapid transmission, especially in young people under 30 years old," she said.
In the control session to the Government held in the Andalusian Parliament, he explained that, unlike the previous ones, the fifth wave of Covid is registering less hospital pressure - far from the peak that was registered in the third, with 4,700 admissions - . This reduction in hospitalizations, according to him, has been "fundamentally" due to vaccines. However, he has warned that the high rate of vaccination in Andalusia has been slowed down by the decrease in the doses sent by the Government of the Nation.
Andalusia is currently leading the vaccination process, with 9.5 million doses administered. In fact, 5.3 million Andalusians have at least one dose –75.3% of the target population– and two out of every three over 16 years old already have the full regimen –65% -. In this sense, he has reported that last week half of the doses arrived –470,000 compared to 835,000 the previous week– and this week the community received 406,000. Thus, he has urged the Government to put pressure on the European Union to speak with pharmaceutical companies in order to make the shipment of vaccines grow again.
Regarding the fifth wave, Moreno has valued the anticipation of his Executive to establish the health alert levels in the month of May, a method that other autonomous communities are now adopting in Spain. All this, in the face of the continuous improvisation of the Government of the Nation and the lack of co-governance during the pandemic. "We believe that this is to be transparent - he continued - that the affected economic sectors know in advance what is happening at each level. And also the fairest and most prudent thing in an autonomous community that in the summer months survival is at stake economic of many families and many jobs ".
Regarding the measures taken in Andalusia due to the increase in the incidence of the virus in recent weeks, it has specified that some of them depend on judicial endorsement, such as the curfew of 2 to 7 hours in municipalities with a higher contagion rate to 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In this line, he has regretted that the autonomous communities continue without a "national legal umbrella" that allows establishing certain measures against outbreaks and that, as a consequence, they depend on court decisions.
Decisions that, as is being observed in the whole of Spain, are disparate from one autonomous community to another. "This is nonsense for the citizen and generates enormous mistrust, from the legal point of view and for the investment itself. It makes the planning of the fight against the pandemic very difficult. We have always insisted that we needed a stable, durable and to give us tools to the communities, but, unfortunately, the requests have been forgotten, "he declared.
