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Date Published: 06/05/2021
ARCHIVED - 11.4 per cent of residents in Spain are now fully vaccinated
Spanish residents aged between 50 and 59 could soon receive the Janssen vaccine as the country begins to inoculate its latest age group.
The latest Ministry of Health figures published on Wednesday, May 5 revealed that 11.4 per cent of Spain’s residents have now been fully inoculated, with 485,756 doses administered in the latest 24-hour period.
In Spain, 17,916,566 vaccines have now been administered, representing 84.9 per cent of the 21,092,475 doses that have been sent to the country’s regions. In total, 5,394,315 people in Spain are now fully vaccinated with either both doses or with the single-dose Janssen jab and 12,686,341 have been given at least one jab, representing 26.7 per cent of the population.
The Ministry of Health announced plans to next begin inoculating those aged between 50 and 59.
The age group will be given the Pfizer and Moderna jabs and may also soon be vaccinated using the one-shot Janssen vaccine after health officials said they planned to widen the number of people who receive the jab.
Currently, the Janssen vaccine is only being administered to those aged between 70 and 79 in Spain, but the government said it plans to offer the jab to those in their fifties before later rolling out the shot to those aged in their sixties.
Health Minister Carolina Darias reported during her presentation of the latest figures that 2.5 million vaccines have been administered in Spain during the last week and that 1.2 million have received their second vaccine in the last seven day period.
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