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Given the prevalence of new strains of Covid, Spain’s President has concluded that herd immunity can only come with 90% vaccination
Having narrowly missed his end of August target to fully vaccinate 70 per cent of the population against Covid, Spain’s President Pedro Sánchez has announced that the vaccination goalpost is to be moved once again. Speaking in Guadalajara, where the first ever Spanish jab was administered back on December 27 2020, he concluded that the new target should be to inoculate 90 per cent of the population, though he didn’t specify a date by which this should be achieved.
Covid experts have recently reached a common consensus that with the emergence of new strains of coronavirus such as the Delta variant, it is more prudent to aim for a figure somewhere over 90 per cent. Even then, Minister of Health Carolina Darias cautioned, herd immunity may not be fully achieved since Covid vaccinations lessen symptoms but do not prevent inoculated people from catching the virus, and she described the 70 per cent vaccination achievement as “another milestone, not the goal.”
The latest data released by the Ministry of Health on Thursday September 2 show that a total of 33.6 million people have now been fully vaccinated in Spain some eight months after the campaign originally began – 70.9 per cent.
While virtually 100 per cent of those aged 80 and over have been immunised, that number falls to 83.6 per cent in those aged between 40 and 49, while just 67.7 per cent of people in the 30 to 39 age bracket have received a full schedule. In those aged from 20 to 29, 60 per cent are inoculated but the number falls dramatically when the youngest age group is considered.
People aged between 12 and 19 years old have accounted for the vast majority of new infections in the fifth wave of the pandemic, and with a new school year looming just 32.2 per cent of this population has been double jabbed.
The Balearic Islands are topping the list of the percentage of youngsters vaccinated, with 59.5 per cent of those under 19 years fully inoculated followed by the north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla at 45.5 and 49.7 and the Region of Murcia at 43.7 per cent. At the other end of the scale, Cantabria has fully vaccinated just 7.6 per cent of its youngest population.
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