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New milestone in the vaccination campaign against coronavirus: more than half of the Spanish population already has the complete guideline. This is reflected in the report of this Monday from the Ministry of Health, which figures the proportion of immunized Spaniards at 50.7%.
A) Yes, 24,041,017 citizens They have already received both doses of the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines or a single shot with the Janssen vaccine, which only requires the administration of one dose.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, It was already advancing last Wednesday that the forecast was to reach 50% of the population vaccinated with the complete schedule at the beginning of this week. A goal reached this Monday, while the Government maintains its goal of vaccinating 70% of Spaniards this summer.
To date, according to the Ministry’s data, 51,229,989 doses have been administered against COVID-19 in our country, 990,941 of them since last Friday. Thus, 62.1% of the population already has at least one dose (29,484,796 people).
A vaccination coverage that, if calculated on the population to be immunized, amounts to 70% with at least one dose and it stands at 57.1% with complete guidelines.
“A vaccinated person can become infected and be a transmitter”
In any case, experts urge not to lower your guard, since those vaccinated can also become infected and transmit the virus to other people. In this sense, the immunologist Alfredo Corell, who had already received both doses of the vaccine, warned this Monday after testing positive that “a vaccinated person can become infected and be a transmitter”. You can see here his intervention in Al Rojo Vivo:
