This update from 'The Local' shows progress in the Comunidad Valenciana region is one of the slowest in Spain."
The number of vaccinated Spaniards now surpasses the number of people who had the virus. But some regions are doing better than others.
What’s the latest?
More people in Spain have received at least one dose of the vaccine than have had coronavirus during the course of the pandemic.
3.2 million people have received at least one vaccine, while there have been 3.16 million cases in the country since the start of the pandemic. In total, Spain has injected 4.6 million doses of the vaccine, giving more people second doses than the UK.
However, this is far off the current aim of vaccinating 70 percent of the adult population by the end of the summer, a total of 27.4 million people.
The government hopes that its vaccination efforts will pick up in April, when more vaccines will become available. This is partly thanks to the expected approval on March 11 of the Janssen vaccine, which requires just a single dose, El País reports.
How does Spain’s vaccine rollout compare to other countries?
Across the EU, vaccinations have been hampered by supply issues. Spain has vaccinated 9,629 per 100,000 residents, around the EU average. This is better than countries like Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Austria and Croatia but slightly behind neighbouring Portugal, Poland and Switzerland. The top EU performers are Denmark, with 12,732 per 100,000 vaccinated, Hungary on over 13,000 and Serbia, which has vaccinated over 22,000 per 100,000 residents.
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Spain’s first priority group are care home residents and staff, front-line health workers, other care staff and the significantly disabled. Many people in these groups have now been vaccinated and the different regions in Spain are vaccinating over 80 year-olds.
Over 80s receive the Pfzier-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines, while the AstraZeneca jab is reserved for key workers under the age of 55.
However, each Spanish region adopts slightly different approaches to their vaccination and some are pulling ahead of others, with supply issues holding certain regions back.
In which Spanish regions is the vaccine campaign going well?
Rural regions with smaller populations have administered the most doses per 100,000 residents, while Andalusia has administered the most vaccines in total.
Asturias leads the way, giving out 13,005 doses per 100,000 inhabitants. Asturias has received over 166,000 doses and used 80 percent of those.
Castilla y León’s vaccination rate is 12,764 doses per 100,000 residents. Authorities have have reached around 300,000 residents, while just under 100,000 people have been vaccinated twice.
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In third place, Extremadura had handed out 129,850 doses by Sunday, with over 45,000 receiving two doses. 90 percent of people in care homes have been vaccinated. If supply were better, it could deliver even more vaccines, authorities have said. Cantabría and Aragón are next in line, with similar roll out rates to Extremadura.
Almost 12 percent of Navarra’s 650,000 population have received a vaccine. Authorities have administered 77,694 doses, with over 25,000 people receiving both doses. La Rioja, meanwhile, has now administered 10,979 vaccine doses per 100,000 residents.
Andalusia leads the way in terms of number of people vaccinated, with almost a million people receiving a jab, 7 percent of the 8.4 million population. Over a quarter of a million have already had two doses.
All care home residents have been vaccinated, while 83 percent of workers have received a jab. The southern region has also given one dose of the vaccine to almost half of its over 80 year-olds, and is currently vaccinating those with significant disabilities at home and disabled people who cannot travel to vaccination centres.
Catalonia has the ninth best rate, administering 10,085 doses of the vaccine per 100,000 residents.The region has given a first dose to just 11 percent of its over 80s, although the majority of care home workers and residents have been vaccinated.
Like elsewhere in Spain, key workers under the age of 55 are receiving the AstraZeneca jab: almost a third of teachers have had their first dose, two thirds of police and firefighters and over a half of pharmacy workers."
Source: The Local
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