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Spain will receive 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine over the next 12 weeks.
350,000 doses will be delivered from Belgium every week.
Andalucia will receive the first shipment of 1,980 doses on Sunday.
They will be stored in central sites in Seville and Granada from where they will be distributed to 40 primary healthcare centres and 37 hospitals.
178 vaccination teams are prepared with 500 nurses.
73 teams will handle care homes where the vaccinations will start.
Clearly this is a slow process because of the production and delivery issues from the Pfizer factory in Belgium, which is dealing with orders from everywhere, including 200 million from the EU. Spain’s share of this 200 million is 20 million, so at this rate it will be well into the summer until we get all these doses, and then only enough for 25% of the population.
Clearly everyone is waiting for the Zeneca vaccine to be approved, because this is a simpler vaccine to produce in large quantities, and there are a lot of facilities where it can be made.
On the good news, the infection rate locally is well under control (a 90% fall since 9th November) as it is in most of Spain.
Obviously a concern about the new strain and if it reaches us.
There are some serious hot spots, particularly in the north of Catalunia, where everyone accepts that people have been ignoring the rules, particularly in bars which serve the ski resorts.
The result is now a total lockdown.
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