Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has announced the government’s vaccination strategy for all of Spain.
Sánchez this week revealed the Covid-19 vaccination plan which is to be presented to the Council of Ministers today (Tuesday). The programme will be launched in January and will boast 13,000 vaccination points to guarantee “equitable access to vaccines.”
“The Government will guarantee that all prioritized groups have access to the vaccine. For this, a single vaccination strategy will be agreed upon in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System,” Sánchez explained at a press conference.
The PM indicated that “a very substantial part of the population may be vaccinated with all the guarantees in the first half of the year.”
The campaign will be launched in January and will have 13,000 vaccination points across Spain. At the press conference, Sánchez remarked that in Spain every year, 10 million people are vaccinated against the flu and as such, the country’s “National Health System is prepared to achieve this objective.” In fact, this year, in just eight weeks, 14 million people have had had the flu vaccine.
Spain’s so called ‘single vaccination strategy’ has been designed with a group of multidisciplinary experts including “experts from the autonomous communities, the Interterritorial Council and bioethics”.
The EU has signed five contracts for 1,200 million doses of the Covid vaccine. “Our country will be, together with Germany, the first EU country to have a complete vaccination plan against Covid-19,” Sánchez announced.
While speaking to the press, the head of government also indicated that since the new state of alarm was approved at the end of October, there has been a “lower number of outbreaks in public spaces.” Specifically, he praised the fact that schools are not becoming sources of contagion, which he qualifies as one of the “great successes” of the government.