Vaccination: Madrid opens today the self-appointment of the booster dose against covid from 55 years of age | Madrid

The Community of Madrid has opened the system of the self-cite for booster dose against covid for those 55 and over. From seven in the morning, this new age group can request the day and time for that third puncture, which will begin to be inoculated this Saturday. The region already has 90.8% of the target population with one dose, and 88.6% with the full regimen. With 5,200 new positives notified this Thursday, transmission is growing rapidly Already a week after Christmas and a few days before the start of the school holidays, it is urgent to immunize the largest possible population both in Madrid and in the rest of the autonomous regions.

For this new age group that is being expanded, the process will be the same as before. Both first and second doses and booster doses can be requested through the application of the health card or the authorization web system (which can be accessed by clicking on this link). It will be done in 29 public hospitals, the Isabel Zendal center and the WiZink Center.

At Zendal, the professionals will administer the three doses by appointment from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and from 9:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., at night, without the need for an appointment. In the WiZink, which will also have all three, the immunization will be done from 9:00 to 21:00 by appointment.

Meanwhile, primary care continues to puncture the booster dose to those over 60 years of age, who also have to make an appointment through the phone of their health center by selecting the option “covid vaccination appointment” in the recording that will skip them when calling . And 17 Madrid Salud centers of the City Council of the capital also administer the three doses upon request on the website enabled for it.

“Likewise, social health professionals who need a booster dose are receiving it in their work centers. In the event that this population group does not have an Occupational Risk Prevention Service to which they can contact, they can be vaccinated at the Official College of Physicians of Madrid and at the Hospital Nurse Isabel Zendal by appointment. [a la que se puede acceder en este enlace]”, Explains the Community in a press release.

Since the vaccination campaign began, almost a year ago, more than 11.2 million doses have been inoculated in Madrid, a protection that is cushioning this wave that has gained strength in the last two weeks. Last Wednesday, at a press conference, the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, explained that Madrid has 10 confirmed cases of omicron and 154 under study. “We must remember that not everything is sequenced, random tests are done, and the transmission of omicron on the tests carried out is high,” he added. There are health areas in Madrid where this variant already exceeds 30% of infections.

The sixth wave, which arrived in Madrid with more delay than in other autonomous regions, is picking up pace and the incidence is already close to 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 15 days: two weeks ago it was 160. In that same range, 857 people have needed a hospital admission and 137 a place in intensive care units. Since December started, 80 people have died from covid in the community.