Friday, September 8, 2023, 17:34
The Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, announced this Friday that the Covid and flu vaccination will begin in the Valencian Community the week of October 16 to 23 with vulnerable patients.
Gómez made these statements to the media after presiding over the meeting of the Consejo de Gobierno Consorci Provincial Hospitalari de Castelló when he was asked about the response to Covid in the Valencian Community.
«Covid is a viral pathology that has come to stay, what happens is that we had the pandemic and it seems that it is the only thing that matters, but we will also have spikes in flu, although it is true that this last week the rates have stabilized. cases,” he said.
The head of Health recalled that next Tuesday there will be a meeting of the Interterritorial Council to unify the vaccination criteria. «We have already done our homework and we are going to start vaccinating against Covid and flu in the week of October 16 to 23 and, as it should be from a health and epidemiological point of view, with vulnerable, immunocompromised and high risk,” he added.
Likewise, regarding Covid, he explained that at Tuesday’s meeting criteria will be unified and the citizens of the Valencian Community “will have the best vaccine that is currently on the market to be able to immunize everyone in the best possible way. “But this has to be in accordance with the Ministry’s policy, which is what the vaccine guidelines set for us.”
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