ARCHIVED - Almost 37 per cent of the population of Spain are fully vaccinated against Covid
25.3 million people have now received at least one vaccine dose
The latest pandemic data published by Spain’s Ministry of Health on Wednesday evening show that while the coronavirus incidence rate is continuing to rise, the proportion of the population to have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 has risen to 36.9 per cent, progressing towards the target of 70 per cent which has been set by the government to achieve “herd immunity”.
The 17.52 million people to have received both vaccine doses or the single-dose Janssen product are among 25.32 million, or 53.4 per cent of the population, who have been given at least one jab, and as the immunization campaign continues rapidly the vaccines are now being administered to younger and younger age groups. As many as 53.3 per cent of those aged over 40 in Spain are fully vaccinated and 85.7 per cent have received at least one dose, while 23.7 per cent of those in their 30s have been given the first dose.
In this context the efficiency of the vaccines is demonstrated by the fact that the overwhelming majority of new cases being confirmed are in teenagers and young adults.
Inevitably, there is still some variation among the data for the different regions of Spain, but in all of them the vaccination process is progressing well. In Asturias 72 per cent of over-12s have received at least one dose but the equivalent percentage is just 53.5% in Madrid, while the proportions to have been fully vaccinated range from 37.5 per cent in the Balearics to 49.3 per cent in Galicia.