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Communities begin to administer the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine to the elderly

Josefa Pérez marks another milestone by being the first to receive the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Josefa was also the first vaccinated in Catalonia. He is 89 years old, from Ourense and lives in a residence in Barcelona.

On Spain will be for the elderly and immunocompromised, but in other countries the third already applies to healthy adults. It is the case of Israel, China, Hungary, United Arab Emirates and Russia. Of all of them, the West looks above all at Israel, it is always one step ahead, it has been administering that third dose for a month.

In the United States everything was ready to start, but the experts of the drug agency finally advise against the third dose for healthy adults, New York, José Ángel Abad, tell us.

In Spain, it has even been proposed to administer it together with that of the gripe. At first, that idea was raised because it also has advantages when it comes to logistics, organization. Inoculating both is easier, but in the end it will not be done because we would still have to wait 20-25 days for the flu and the communities want to start now.

Catalonia started this Friday, Castilla León and the Valencian Community also they start next week. Aragon will do so from the same Monday. In Andalusia the process will start on Tuesday, there are 800,000 vaccines saved.

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