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ARCHIVED - Spanish health authorities agree to open vaccination for all aged over 12 in Spain
Most areas of Spain are currently administering Covid vaccines to patients in their 40s, while some, such as the Canary Islands, have already started on those in their 30s.
On Tuesday the Spanish Public Health Committee met to discuss a number of topics relating to the vaccination strategy in Spain and voted to include the last three age groups currently permitted within the vaccination strategy to be included within the roll-out.
As most Spanish regions are now vaccinating patients in their 40s, the latest update to the official nationwide strategy will include 30 to 39-year-olds, 20 to 29-year-olds and 12 to 19-year-olds.
Some regions have already started to contact patients in their 30s or announced that they can book appointments for their vaccinations in light of the recent speedy progress. However, the regional health authorities all agree that it is vitally important to continue to reach older patients who have yet to receive their doses and have agreed to make a particular effort to ensure that all of those in their 50s and 40s who have not yet been offered a vaccine will be contacted .
The latest update to the strategy calls for the newly included age groups to be vaccinated in 'descending age order’, as has been the case for previous groups. However, the Ministry of Health has announced that given the availability of more doses and the fact that summer is coming, the groups may overlap.
This permits health authorities to call wider age groups on any given day in order to focus on areas in which there may be a higher incidence or in which particular risk is perceived and also helps the health authorities to vaccinate individuals outside of specific age groups should there be surplus vaccines on a given day or a region wish to specifically vaccinate certain groups of people, ie lifeguards, waiters or shopworkers.
The Health Committee has also highlighted the need to prioritise teenagers with special circumstances or health problems considered to be at high risk.
The principal topic on which there was no agreement related to the use of masks in outdoor spaces, which some regions are keen to see reduced only to situations in which social distancing is difficult, such as going to concerts. Coastal regions in particular, are keen to see the insistence on wearing masks in open-air public spaces removed and believe there is less risk as the vaccination campaign reaches more people; as of Tuesday evening, 45 per cent of the population has received a first dose and 27 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated.
Debate on this topic has been shelved for a future session of the committee.
It is certainly uncomfortable wearing a facemask in 35 degrees of heat and is also viewed as being a deterrent in attracting international tourists.