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For weeks, the figures for vaccines supplied by Pfizer, Modern Y AstraZeneca Spain did not match those that appeared in the vaccination reports of the Ministry of Health. At first the number of doses was a few thousand, but eventually it was climbing to 30,000, which was the figure used this week by the Cs parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies.
The Ministry of Health noted that the discrepancy corresponded to those vaccines delivered to the Armed forces, but until now he had declined to give explanations publicly as to the exact number of doses, their destination or why these vaccines did not appear in the official records. “This assumption has not been confirmed by the Government,” they explained from Cs, who added in their complaint that the number of doses received in Defense had not been updated since the beginning of March.
Ana Maria Rodriguez
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“The idea is that the data of the vaccines that have been transferred to Defense and that Defense is administering directly end up being reflected in the daily vaccination report,” said the Secretary of State for Health, Silvia Calzón, February 18. Five weeks later, the exact number is finally known. This Wednesday, the government vaccination report included a total of 52,600 doses distributed to the Armed Forces, which are distributed between 19,500 from Pfizer and 33,100 from AstraZeneca. If we look at the explanation given by Calzón that day, the delay was due to the interoperability necessary to transfer the data from the Defense registry to the Health registry.
The chaos of missed vaccines over the last month was fueled primarily by the lack of transparency, but also due to the gap between the data provided by the pharmaceutical companies. So it happened with Moderna in February, when the number of 192,000 doses that appeared in the report did not coincide with the initial forecasts of the Government: 217,000.
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In this Wednesday’s report, Health also published other data that until now did not appear, although they were known through press releases that the ministry has published in recent months. The total number of doses purchased by Spain on March 24 was 69,129,990, of which it had only received 8,522,095, 12.3%. The amount delivered to the autonomous communities and the Armed Forces does not coincide: they are 8,508,445. Those 13,650 are divided between the 7,800 that have been sold to Andorra and 5,850 that are still in the central hub pending to be sent to the communities, as confirmed by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).
For a few weeks, the daily Health reports have also included data on vaccination in the institutionalized population (residences), the first group to receive the covid-19 vaccine. However, although some communities do, the ministry has not yet published vaccination data by age group. Is one of the six countries that has not submitted such data to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The others are Germany, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia.
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