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ARCHIVED - Covid vaccine rollout rate in Murcia and across Spain still sluggish
Image: health personnel being vaccinated in Murcia Region
Figures reported by the Murcian regional health service and the national government are totally different
After a slow start to the Covid vaccination program in Spain, with the onset of mass immunization delayed by the Christmas and New Year holidays among other factors, the campaign is gradually gathering momentum across the country but Murcia is one of the regions where there remains most ground to be made up.
The latest information published by the Ministry of Health on Monday is that of the 743,925 vaccine doses received by Spain (a figure which does not include the latest batch of over 300,000 which was delivered by Pfizer during the day) a total of only 406,091 had been administered, representing a rollout rate of 54.6 per cent.
In the Region of Murcia, though, the equivalent figure was significantly lower at 40.3 per cent (10,361 out of 25,685): the regional health service of Murcia said on Tuesday that there had been significant problems inputting the data reference for the vaccinations undertaken to date into the national system run by the central government, and said that by the end of Monday the regional health authority had administered 17,091 vaccines out of the 25,685 received, representing 66.5% of the total, not 40.3 %. This was, they said, above the national average of 54.6%.
Across the country the start of the immunization campaign has resulted in a wide variety of rollout rates, ranging from figures of over 80 per cent in Galicia and the north African enclave of Melilla to just 25.2 per cent in Madrid. Inevitably the historic snowfall in the capital over the last few days has slowed the process down further, but after the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, stated that Spain must now “vaccinate, vaccinate and vaccinate” it can be expected that the figures will rise sharply over the next few days.
The rollout rate in Murcia was the third lowest in Spain’s 17 regions according to the health ministry data (disputed by the Murcian authorities as stated above): apart from Madrid only the Balearics are responding more slowly, at 36.2 per cent, although it is worth pointing out that in the islands the latest data available are from last Friday and do not take into account vaccinations at the weekend. Of the 406,000 patients vaccinated so far in this country, the government reports that over 128,000 received their first doses over the weekend.
The full vaccination data for Spain’s regional health authorities can be found here: Click for source data
Vaccines will be administered in pre-determined blocks, beginning with those deemed to be most at risk and health workers.
It is anticipated that the schedule will reach those aged 80+ around mid-February although this depends on the availability of vaccines; at the moment the supply levels are lower than anticipated.