![]() ![]() Vaccination in the Basque Country region will take place in healthcare centers and other vaccination points. The vaccination of this age group will take place in healthcare centers in these three regions. Otherwise, parents will be able to request appointments from next Monday. Only in rural areas will schools be used for the process, according to the regional health chief – school nurses will advise parents as to when it’s their children’s turn. The regional government is going to vaccinate this group in healthcare centers and the mobile units currently being used to administer doses to unvaccinated adults. In Andalusia, vaccination of children will begin on December 15 for those aged between nine and 11, and the target age will fall progressively after that. ![]() All, apart from the Balearic Islands and Castilla-La Mancha, have already decided how to proceed. As such, the Health Ministry is taking a flexible stance and will allow the regions to take an approach that they consider optimum to complete the process over the coming months.ĮL PAÍS has asked Spain’s 17 regions how they will approach this new phase of the campaign. But unlike when the vaccination campaign began nearly a year ago, focussing on seniors, there is not an urgent need to inoculate youngsters, nor are there major differences in the risk posed to them by Covid-19 according to age. The initial proposal is for the regions to start with vulnerable children and the oldest from the group. Eight weeks after the first dose they will be given the second, with these second doses due to be delivered to Spain from February onward. They will be given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but in a smaller dosage than that already administered to adults and teenagers in Spain. These deliveries will be sufficient for the first injection for practically all of the children in Spain in this age group. The central Health Ministry is planning to distribute 1.2 million of these doses during the month of December, with another two million to come in January. As was the case with other minors who have already been vaccinated, parental permission will be required, and in most of Spain, a prior appointment will have to be secured. Most of the country’s regions are planning to begin the process on December 15. ![]() These are Valencia, Extremadura and La Rioja. At least three of Spain’s territories – which are in charge of their healthcare systems, coronavirus restrictions and vaccination programs – will be using schools to administer the vaccines. Some of the regions will use mass-vaccination sites for children, while others will stick to hospitals and other medical centers. This coming Monday, Spain’s autonomous regions will begin to receive the first doses of the pediatric Covid-19 vaccine, which will be used to inoculate the 3.3 million children aged between five and 11 who live in Spain.Īfter a campaign that began last December, and has so far seen more than 77.5 million vaccine doses administered to the adult population, the mechanisms for this process are already well oiled. ![]()
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