Almerians between the ages of 79 and 55 could be vaccinated against the coronavirus throughout the month of April. At least that is the scenario that the Territorial Delegation of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía raises if the necessary doses of Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson arrive in the coming weeks.The head of the Delegation, Juan de la Cruz Belmonte, was asked yesterday about that objective once it was known that the vaccination with AstraZeneca is already underway for people from Almeria between 65 and 55 years of age and that next Monday April 5, the population that is 79 years old will begin to be immunized.As a whole, according to official data, in the age segment of 79-55 years there are about 170,000 people in Almería, that is, the target population to be vaccinated in April.In any case, it is clarified, everything is conditional on the fulfillment of the forecasts of the central government, which in turn trusts the EU.3,400 in 48 hoursThe objective is possible since, with the activation of the AstraZeneca vaccines, it has been shown that in just 48 hours, about 3,400 people have been vaccinated in two health districts, those of Almería and Poniente.Today is just one week since the vaccination with injections from the British laboratory was resumed and, since then, the influx of people from Almeria to their appointment with the AstraZeneca vaccine has been quite noticeable. It does not matter which pharmaceutical company it is. "All vaccines are safe. I am 56 years old and if tomorrow I had to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca, I would do it without problem , ”Juan de la Cruz Belmonte Mena told reporters."Only in this Palace of the Mediterranean Games we have the capacity to update up to more than 2,000 doses if necessary," the Health delegate said on the afternoon of this Holy Tuesday.Visit to the PalaceBelmonte Mena visited yesterday, for the second time since the mass vaccination plan began, these sports facilities managed by the Almería City Council, and checked the 'cruising speed' that is being reached. "We wanted to make - he explained - a massive summons to verify the vaccination capacity that can be carried out in the province at points like this one."Throughout the afternoon, the drip of people who came to begin to be immunized, such as Carmen García Navarro, 64, was constant . "You don't have to be afraid to get vaccinated," he said, while a health worker told him to wait in the car for a quarter of an hour in case there was a "reaction to the vaccine."HolidaysBelmonte added that this mass vaccination plan does not take vacations, much less this Easter. " On Holy Saturday about 2,000 people are summoned in the North Health Agency ", which includes municipalities of Levante and Almanzora.These days, the three health districts that make up the province of Almería are focusing efforts on finishing the first dose of Pfizer administered to people from Almeria over 80 years old, both of whom, for some reason, have not been able to cite and the so-called 'immobilized', people who cannot go to the vaccination centers and have to go to their homes.After the first half of April, the arrival in Spain of the Janssen vaccines, also known as Johnson's, is expected. It will only be necessary to administer one dose for an effective immunization against the coronavirus. "There will be an important qualitative leap because with one dose more population can be covered," stressed yesterday the delegate together with directors of the Almería Health District and its surroundings.
