The Minister of Health, Carolina Dariashas taken for granted this Thursday that the population over 80 years could receive the fourth dose of the covid vaccine, the second reinforcement, from the second half of September.
As he has said in RAC-1, if the health authorities mark it and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) authorizes new vaccines adapted to the omicron variant, the doses could reach during the first half of Septemberand the system would be ready to inoculate the vaccines during the second half of the same month. Later it would be the turn of the elderly housed in residences and older than 60 years, that they could receive the dose before the end of the year.
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One of the vaccines that could be given, apart from those of Pfizer and Moderna, would be that of Hipra, made in Amer (Selva), if you receive authorization from the EMA. For Darias it would be good news because it would put the state as a vaccine reference, not only because of the high percentage of the vaccinated population and because it bottles the doses of other vaccines, but also because it produces the active ingredient of one of the vaccines. adapted to the new variants.
Darias explained that epidemiological reports suggest that the maximum peak of increase in cases is about to arrive and that in Catalonia and Madrid has already begun the descent. Despite the increase in cases, he admits that the severity is less than in other waves, thanks above all to the immunity caused by vaccines and previous infections. That is why he has insisted on the importance of vaccination as the best protection.