Spain say goodbye to AstraZeneca vaccine. Our country will not receive or distribute more doses of this drug against covid, according to what the Ser string, which cites sources from the Ministry of Health.
According to this information, the autonomous communities have sufficient doses of AstraZeneca to vaccinate or complete the guideline for the age group of between 60 and 69 years, the only one to which this serum is administered, in accordance with the vaccination strategy approved in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System.
In the event that any more doses were needed to complete the schedule, the communities would have to go to Health, which would provide them with the required vials.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, Spain has administered 8,914,320 doses of AstraZeneca, 85.8% of those received. Almost four million people (3,930,576 people) have received the complete regimen of this serum.
The Community of Madrid already announced last Friday that it will return to the Ministry of Health around 200,000 remaining doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine as there is no longer a target population to apply them to, as explained by the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, in an interview on Madrid wave.
The ups and downs of AstraZeneca
Spain administers several vaccines against covid, all of them authorized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA): Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen (single-dose) and AstraZeneca.
In the case of the Anglo-Swedish drug, it is only administered to the age group between 60 and 69 years. Before defining its use, it was also used to essential staff (teachers, security forces and bodies …). The use changed after the EMA found links between the vaccine and the appearance of thrombi, although very rare.
Although the regulator continued to recommend its administration without age bands, Spain chose to limit its use and even offered, to those under 60 years of age, the option of completing the schedule with the Pfizer vaccine.
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