Vaccination in Navarra for people from 70 to 79 will start after Easter | Radio Pamplona

The 73% of those over 80 years of age in Navarra has received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, as stated by the Minister of Health of the Government of Navarra, Santos Induráin, who has confirmed that the Vaccination of the 70 to 79-year-old group and of high-risk groups will begin after Easter.

Induráin has stated that the administration of the first dose to the group over 80 years old concludes next week. In this way, the complete immunization, having to spend 21 days for the second dose, will be at the end of the month or the beginning of May.

The first dose of AstraZeneca to professional groups is also scheduled to be completed this week and next.

In this way, once the vaccination of these two “important” blocks is completed, the administration to the group of 70 to 79 years will begin, with a mixed system of citation. “It will start from top to bottom,” commented the counselor, to explain that it will overlap with the vaccination of high-risk groups.

In this regard, he explained that at the hospital level, work is being done on people with oncological diseases or transplants for after Easter to start the vaccination.

Likewise, in “coherence” with the new AstraZenea technical sheet, which extends the age to 65 years, Induráin has detailed that it is also working so that, once the professional groups are concluded, the administration of this vaccine begins to people from 65 years.

The Minister of Health has remarked that vaccination will continue from Monday to Sunday, including holidays, and has advanced that in the next appearances and communications “practical instructions will be given to citizens and also other mechanisms so that they can communicate, attend doubts, suggestions, incidents in this stage in which there will be a greater role and proactivity “.

Regarding the places for the vaccination of the 70 to 79-year-old group, made up of some 56,000 people, he explained that vaccination will continue in the UPNA sports center, which will be added between April 8 and 11 old school of Marists. At the rural level, it will continue as is being done so far.

On the other hand, regarding the Jannsen vaccine, the counselor has commented that in principle it will be aimed at those over 66 years of age and that it will take into account the target population in which it is “important to ensure that first dose, because sometimes it is difficult to guarantee the second as homeless people or with some type of serious disorder that makes the inoculation of the vaccine a difficult moment. ” “There will be issues yet to be defined,” he added.

Regarding the request of the GERNA association that people with rare diseases be included in the vaccination, Induráin has referred to the agreements of the Public Health Commission. “They are consensual criteria that are the ones that all the communities are going to follow,” he added.

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