Latest news of the coronavirus, live | Spain receives 1.2 million of the vaccine from Pfizer this Monday

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This Monday a shipment of 1.2 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine against covid arrives in Spain, which will be added to another batch of more than a million vaccines from the pharmaceutical AstraZeneca, received last Thursday and distributed among the communities autonomous during Holy Week. The arrival of the new batch of Pfizer, announced by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, last week, is a “significant escalation” that will allow a boost to the immunization plan.

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