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ARCHIVED - Spain steps up vaccinations; 150,000 Covid vaccines administered in 24 hours
Double this rate is required if immunization targets are to be met in late September
The coronavirus vaccination campaign in Spain and the rest of the EU continues to progress at a rate far slower than had been hoped for, but over the last week, with the arrival of more Astra Zeneca doses an important factor, there has at least been a significant increase in the number of doses administered on a daily basis.
The latest daily update published by the Ministry of Health on Thursday reports that 151,480 doses were administered in the previous 24-hour period, only the second time since the much-hailed first jab was given in this country on 27th December that the figure of 151,000 has been surpassed. The total is still far short of the average of 300,000 which is required if the target of vaccinating 33 million people in Spain by 30th September is to be reached, but it at least indicates that the infrastructures are in place throughout the country to up the pace when sufficient supplies become available.
According to statements made this week by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, this will be the case in April, when he anticipates that the current rate of vaccination will be quadrupled as the campaign finally moves into top gear and more supplies are made available to Spain. This should make the target achievable, immunizing 70 per cent of the population with two doses of vaccine by the end of the summer (or one dose in the case of the Janssen formula when it receives EU approval).
Of the 4,508,845 doses of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccine received so far by Spain, 3,436,158 (or 76.2 per cent) have been administered, with 1.23 million people having received both recommended doses and just under 1 million more having received just the first.
The number of people to have received at least one dose is therefore 2.2 million, equating to 4.65 per cent of the country’s population, and this mirrors the situation in the EU as a whole.
For this reason the leaders of member states are underlining the importance of accelerating authorization, production and distribution mechanisms as soon as possible while at the same time monitoring closely the emergence of new strains of Covid-19: if these aims are not achieved, the debate over the proposed “health passport” will remain irrelevant for a long time to come.
Following the video-conference between EU states on Thursday, the EU made the following points in the subsequent joint press statement, "Vaccination has now begun in all our Member States and our vaccine strategy has ensured that all Member States have access to vaccines. Even so, we need to urgently accelerate the authorisation, production and distribution of vaccines, as well as vaccination. We also need to enhance our surveillance and detection capacity in order to identify variants as early as possible so as to control their spread, as set out in the Commission Communication on the ‘HERA Incubator: Anticipating together the threat of COVID-19 variants’. We support the additional efforts by the Commission to work with industry and Member States to increase the capacity of current vaccine production as well as to adjust vaccines to the new variants as necessary. We also support the Commission’s ongoing efforts to accelerate the availability of raw materials, facilitate agreements between manufacturers across supply chains, scope existing facilities so as to help production scale-up in the EU and further the research and development efforts. Companies must ensure predictability of their vaccine production and respect contractual delivery deadlines. Transparency with regard to the overall efforts should be enhanced."