Feijóo confirms that Galicians from 66 to 69 years old will receive Pfizer

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 4 May. (EUROPA PRESS)

The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has ratified this Tuesday that Galicians between 66 and 69 years who are summoned to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will receive Pfizer. Specifically, the Servizo Galego de Saúde aims to vaccinate 70% of the population of this age group between Friday and Saturday with about 90,000 scheduled appointments.

After receive your first dose of AstraZeneca, the Galician president has explained that the change in the decision that the group from 66 to 69 receive Pfizer is due to the fact that This has been considered by the vaccination commission of the Interterritorial Health Council. “He has considered that we could not wait for AstraZeneca, that we already had Pfizer and that, therefore, the best thing was to put Pfizer in that age group and not go down from 59, which was what was planned,” he explained.

“There was that change and I think the best thing is to do things by mutual agreement, although it can be argued whether it is reasonable or not,” Feijóo stressed, since the Xunta had defended the use of AstraZeneca for the group in question.

Margin for AstraZeneca Vaccines

As for what will happen to the AstraZeneca vaccines that may go unused, the president has assured that he is not very clear to which target population will be dispensed, but has indicated that it will be a decision of the Interterritorial Council.

“I imagine, according to the statements of Pedro Sánchez, that Spain is going to donate vaccines to countries with difficulties and that we will be talking about that brand. But it is an assumption “, has settled.