COVID and Flu Vaccination Campaign 2023/2024 Begins in Andalusia – Updates and Progress

COVID and Flu Vaccination Campaign 2023/2024 Begins in Andalusia – Updates and Progress

Andalusia begins this Monday October 30 the third phase of the vaccination campaign against gripe and the covid 2023/2024 that began last October 9. Thus, people over 60 years of age, as well as other professional groups (Security Forces and Corps, livestock farmers, penitentiary institutions) will be able to receive both vaccines. The Ministry of … Read more

Smokers Over 18 Can Now Get Vaccinated for Flu: Vaccination Campaign 2023/2024 Update

Smokers Over 18 Can Now Get Vaccinated for Flu: Vaccination Campaign 2023/2024 Update

Smokers over 18 years of age will be able to get vaccinated against the flu for the first timeMaría José López – Europa Press One of the great novelties of the vaccination campaign 2023/2024 against the flu and covid-19 is the inclusion of smokers as a risk group who are recommended to get vaccinated against … Read more

Expanded Flu Vaccine Recommendations in Andalusia: Vaccination for Over 60s, Smokers, and More

Expanded Flu Vaccine Recommendations in Andalusia: Vaccination for Over 60s, Smokers, and More

This winter, Andalusia expands the recommended groups to receive the flu vaccine. The general director of Public Health, Jorge del Diego, has announced on Canal Sur Radio that Andalusia this year incorporates the vaccination of those over 60 years of age, a drop of five compared to 2022, equaling the recommendation to receive the Covid … Read more

Why it is Advisable to Vaccinate Children Against the Flu: Insights from Pediatric Infectologist Elisa Garrote

Why it is Advisable to Vaccinate Children Against the Flu: Insights from Pediatric Infectologist Elisa Garrote

In a few weeks a new flu vaccination campaign begins. The main novelty this year is the inclusion of children between 6 months and 5 years of age among the population for which the injection is indicated. The preparation, recommended by the WHO and the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP), is already administered to healthy … Read more

Booster Dose Vaccination Rates in the Basque Country: Updates and Statistics

Booster Dose Vaccination Rates in the Basque Country: Updates and Statistics

While coronavirus cases are rebounding in the Basque Country, the inoculation of booster doses remains stagnant. Barely 40% of Basques over the age of 18 have the second booster dose, according to the latest Osakidetza vaccination bulletin. Among those over 80 years of age, however, the scope of punctures to protect themselves against Covid-19 is … Read more

Introducing the Cine Senior Program: Enhancing Access to Cinema for the Elderly

Introducing the Cine Senior Program: Enhancing Access to Cinema for the Elderly

Tomorrow the Cine Senior program will begin at the Marina Cinema in Ceuta, an initiative that will allow people over 65 to enjoy the cinema for only 2 euros. This measure, promoted by the Government and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, aims to encourage a return to theaters and promote the importance … Read more

Cinemas in the Canary Islands Offer Discounted Tickets for Seniors

Cinemas in the Canary Islands Offer Discounted Tickets for Seniors

A total of eleven cinemas in the Canary Islands have joined the program which, starting on July 11, will offer people over 65 years of age access to cinemas at a price of two euros one day a week. As reported this Friday by the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands in a press release, … Read more

Repopulating with Hispanic Americans to care for the elderly, Zamora’s challenge against depopulation

Repopulating with Hispanic Americans to care for the elderly, Zamora’s challenge against depopulation

(EFE) That is the objective of the so-called “Zamora Challenge” which has already managed to get 34 people from Cuba and Argentina to settle in towns in the province. For this, the descendants of emigrants in Latin American countries who wish to return to Zamora are offered training, flight tickets, a work contract and a … Read more

Ministry of Health introduces Herpes Zoster vaccine for 65-year-olds in Zamora

Ministry of Health introduces Herpes Zoster vaccine for 65-year-olds in Zamora

Around 2.500 zamoranoswho meet 65 years receive the vaccine this year against Herpes zoster, one of the novelties introduced by the Ministry of Health in the calendar of vaccinations. As indicated by the department headed by Alexander Vazquez“from 2023, people will be vaccinated born as of January 1, 1957 when they fulfill or have fulfilled … Read more

Low Interest in Fourth COVID Dose: Vaccination Rates Drop in Vigo Health Area

Low Interest in Fourth COVID Dose: Vaccination Rates Drop in Vigo Health Area

When the campaign for the fourth dose for their age group began, Eulalia Pérez, 65, and José Alfonsín, 69, had just suffered from COVID, and they could not put it on. This Friday they went to be injected at the vaccination point of the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital, through which those interested in immunizing themselves against … Read more