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Date Published: 14/09/2021
ARCHIVED - Fewer doses of flu vaccine in Murcia region this year
Regional authorities in Murcia will buy 12,000 fewer flu vaccines in 2021 for vaccination campaign starting in October
The Region of Murcia will have fewer doses of the flu vaccine this year than it did last year due to a reduction in the number of units being purchased by the Regional Ministry of Health. It has been announced that 358,000 units will be purchased this year, compared to the 370,000 doses that arrived in the 2020 flu vaccination campaign.
The flu vaccination campaign in the Murcia Region this year is due to begin in October, and the Regional Minister of Health, Juan José Pedreño, has stated that there will be 12,000 fewer vaccines available.
Last year, the start date of the campaign was brought forward to avoid it coinciding with that of the coronavirus and so that the population would be protected in advance.
While the number of flu vaccines will be decreasing, the Region of Murcia claims it has enough coronavirus vaccines for now. This will be the first week that new doses of the Covid vaccine don’t arrive in Murcia as there are still more than 300,000 in storage, an amount that regional authorities consider sufficient to immunise the 140,000 Murcians who have not yet been vaccinated against coronavirus.
The Region of Murcia has already started giving the third dose of the Covid vaccine to patients with solid organ transplants, and plans to petition for a third dose to also be given to elderly people in care homes.
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