From next Monday, Catalans over 60 will be able to request an appointment at the reference clinics to receive the fourth dose of the Covid vaccine in conjunction with the flu vaccine, which should return to pre-pandemic levels this year. The coronavirus vaccine that will be inoculated is adapted to the dominant variant of the virus currently in Catalonia, omicron, and its two main sub-variants.: AB4 and AB5. In addition, the dose includes the original strain of the virus, that of Wuhan (China). The secretary of public health, Carmen Cabezas, explained Wednesday.
The doses will begin from the clinics from the next October 17.
Since last September 26, when people over 80 and residents in nursing homes started getting vaccinated, 190,000 doses of the two vaccines against Covid and influenza have already been administered, 91,000 doses of each and which distribute one in each arm, Heads has indicated. This group includes workers in nursing homes.that for the moment they have responded less than last year’s vaccination campaign, acknowledged the head of the Catalan public health, who appeared accompanied by the head of the Preventive Medicine Service, Montse Martínez.
