Coronavirus: Spain wants to vaccinate its entire population in 2021

Affected by the Covid-19 pandemic before France, the Kingdom of Spain today has a record that is still (a little) less heavy than ours: 43,668 deaths this Wednesday (and 1.59 million positive cases) against 50,237 deaths in France (2 , 15 million virus carriers).

But the two waves that have already fallen from Catalonia to Andalusia have strongly marked the Spaniards who are also timidly reconnecting with the “life before” scraps that on Monday are the reopening of bars and restaurants.

13,000 vaccination points

However, will they be eager and excited to get vaccinated and ultimately fend off the virus? Not necessarily, according to the result of a survey launched by lavanguardia.com and to which almost 90 thousand people responded on Wednesday: 68.50% of them believe that the vaccine should not be mandatory for everyone. Okay, it won’t be, assured the Spanish Minister of Health, Salvador Illa.

No action in any case because the health authorities are formal: if too large a percentage of Spaniards refuse to be vaccinated, the Ministry of Health reserves the right to make vaccination mandatory, our Catalan colleagues indicated on Wednesday. The vaccine against Covid-19 will still be free, its cost will be 100% covered by the state.

Spain has ordered 140 million doses through the European Union’s centralized supply, enough to immunize 80 million people, more than its population of 47 million who will receive two doses each.

Spain has already announced a dedicated organization: creation of specific logistics with 13,000 vaccination points distributed throughout the country, identification of priority groups, creation of a vaccination register, etc. Efforts made to be quickly identified as “Countries able to vaccinate as soon as doses are available”, specifies the Minister of Health. Since January he thinks he knows.

Priority groups vaccinated in January

As in France, those considered at risk will be the first to be vaccinated.

From January to March it will be the residents of nursing homes and the staff around them, such as the elderly who receive care at home. Between March and June it will be the turn of other fragile categories on which the ministry has not yet communicated.