Castilla-La Mancha, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands or Ceuta have already activated the vaccination of those under 50, that will be generalized throughout the month of June in the rest of the communities, some of which, like Castilla y León or Euskadi, they have chosen to wait to finish the older age groups and receive doses before setting dates.
After Ceuta was the first territory, a week ago, to start vaccinating in this age group, together with the 50-59 age group, In Castilla-La Mancha, it is punctured from this Friday with the Moderna preparation to this group and it is done, before spreading to the rest of the region, in a town of Ciudad Real, in Bolaños de Calatrava.
The president of the community, Emiliano García-Page, announced yesterday and argued that the vaccination process of those over 50 in the region “it will go fast”, which allows the Board even the possibility of anticipating the immunization of children under 40 years of age by two weeks.
On Baleares, those born between 1972 and 1976, between the ages of 49 and 45, a group that is made up of just over 95,000 residents of the islands, since yesterday they request a telematic appointment for a vaccination that officially begins on Wednesday but that there are already arranged for the same Monday.
Shortly after opening a website to make an appointment from the age of 16, In the two Canary Islands capital, applicants from 40 to 49 years old are already being scheduled for June and for the end of June or beginning of July to the group of 30 to 39 years. For the end of July, the final tranches of the segment from 20 to 29 years are expected.
Aragon has also opened the self-appointment this week, although his advisor, Sira Repollés, rules out making an exact planning of the summer campaign because the immunization plan adapts to each circumstance.
Cantabria, yet to specify when he will schedule the summons, he has announced that next week he intends to start vaccinating the 40-49 age group, thanks to the fact that an increase in the number of doses available is planned.
Most communities estimated to vaccinate in the middle of the month, as is the case of Andalusia (from the second week) or the Valencian Community, which has set the start on June 17. Navarra also estimates in the second fortnight.
Madrid plans to start “in about three weeks, or maybe less”, According to the regional Executive, since vaccination in the 50-59 age group is above 60% with the first dose, although it has clarified that everything will depend on the availability of vials.
Catalonia also intends to vaccinate this group in June, after more than half of the Catalans between 50 and 59 years old already have a first injection. Later, in July, they would expand it to the rest of the adult population, from 18 to 39 years old.
In Euskadi The Department of Health does not make public its planning on when the population between 40 and 50 years will be able to be vaccinated because it does not want to generate expectations in citizens that later cannot be met because the planned vaccines do not arrive.
For his part, the vice president and spokesperson of the Junta de Castilla y León, Francisco Igea, has described vaccination announcements of new age groups as a “dangerous strategy” without having yet covered previous ones.
“It cannot be because it bothers me that other Communities advance faster, but because mortality grows directly with age “, and if that is done, he continued, “those most at risk are unprotected” depending on what autonomy they live in.
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“The objective is that in this country previously called Spain stop trying to politically harm one and the other and send a message saying: wherever you are, we are going to vaccinate you, “added the spokesman for the Board.
Asturias has not specified a date, like Galicia, although its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, hopes to finish with the 50-55 group “in the next ten days.”
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