The Department of health from Government of Navarre On October 10, the inoculation of the second booster dose against COVID will begin (which will be theat the fourth dose for the majority of the target population), with flu vaccine in the same act, to the population aged 60 or over (about 160,000 people in Navarre) and to just over 7,500 people with diseases considered to be at high risk. A campaign that, in the health area of Pamplona / Iruna and in that of Tudelàit will be distributed according to geographic and age or vulnerability criteria between health centers and centralized vaccination points of FOREM and the Reina Sofia Hospitalwhile in the area of Estella / Lizzara It will take place in health centers and clinics, with the support of two further points set up in Estella (music school) and the mud (house of culture).
This phase of the campaign will complete the one that will begin on September 26, a date agreed by Health and the Autonomous Communities in the Public Health Commission for the inoculation of the dose against COVID-19 to people hospitalized in residences, and which in Navarre represents about 8,500 more people. . Also on September 26, and in the following two weeks, the progressive sending of SMS to the rest of the target population will begin, giving priority to older groups (people aged 80 and over), so that they can manage your quote .
As usual, the appointment will preferably be managed by Internetthrough the Personal health recordin the link citasalud.navarra.es. There is also the possibility to do it by e-mail at citas [email protected] By phone at the following numbers: 948 370 130 for the Pamplona / Iruña Healthcare Area, 948 370 140 for Tudela and 948 370 135 for that of Estella / Lizarra. You can also request an appointment at the corresponding health center.
Multivalent vaccines against the classic and Ómicron variant
The COVID-19 vaccines that will be used in this second booster dose offer wider protection compared to those used so far, since they are polyvalent vaccines, effective against the classic variant of coronavirus disease, as well as against Ómicron and its main sub-variants.
It should be remembered that, according to a study by seroprevalence in the Navarre population carried out in May of this year by the Department of Health, the presence of anti-nucleocapsid antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, indicative of an immune response against natural infection, has progressively decreased with age. According to this study, just over half of the population over 60 years of age would only have antibodies dependent on vaccine immunity, but not antibodies due to having contracted the infection, which makes them more susceptible to infection if exposed. . .
Existing vaccines have so far been relatively effective in preventing infections, but they have played a vital role in reducing the severity of the infection, the risk of hospitalization and the possibility of developing serious conditions. According to reports from the Navarre Institute for Public Health and Labor, properly vaccinated people who contract the infection are 90% less likely to be hospitalized.
According to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health for this upcoming vaccination campaign, evidence from recent years suggests that there may be a more significant transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the winter season, as is the case with other respiratory viruses. Similarly, experts warn of the possible aggravation of symptoms in case of co-infection with influenza and COVID-19, for which they ask for an increase in vaccination coverage, especially in the elderly, groups with risk and health conditions and socio-experts. of health.
Vaccination for health areas, people with high-risk conditions and health and socio-health workers
In the urban area of the Pamplona Health Area, people over the age of 75 will be vaccinated at health centers, while those between 60 and 74 will receive serum at the FOREM en Mutilva / Mutiloa. In basic rural areas, vaccination will be carried out entirely in health centers.
In the Sanitary area of TudelaFor their part, people aged between 60 and 74 will be vaccinated on the fifth floor of the Reina Sofia Hospital, while people over that age will be vaccinated at the health centers in the area.
In the Estella-Lizarra Health Area Vaccination for all people aged 60 and over will be carried out in health centers and clinics, with the support of two additional points that will be installed in the Estella-Lizarra Music School and in the Estella-Lizarra House of Culture.
The campaign also provides for the immunization of people at very high risk of chronic diseases. These people will be contacted directly by the Health to assign them the appointment and will be vaccinated in their health centers.
Vaccinations of health and social health workers will also begin from 10 October. Previously, they will receive an SMS to proceed with the convocation in the health centers, in the centralized points of the areas or, if necessary, in the corresponding hospital center.
First day without covid patients in the Navarre ICUs
This Friday is the first day since the pandemic broke out in which there are no patients affected by covid in all the ICUs in Navarre, public and private, said Artundo, director general of health. “But that doesn’t mean the pandemic is over, we don’t know how the virus will work this fall-winter,” he said.
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