The Canary Islands needs to receive at least 100,000 doses of Covid vaccines a week to meet the goal of having 70% of the population over 16 years old, vaccinated during the summer, or more specifically, by the end of September, or over 175,000 a week for them to reach their 25,000 a day capability.
This is something that seems impossible based on the doses received so far, which is a weekly average of about 29,500, unless the pharmaceutical companies triple the volume of doses sent, as they have been insistently announcing to the European health authorities that they are going to do.
"If we had enough vaccines, we could reach our desired objectives very soon," said Julio Pérez, spokesman for the Canarian Executive after the Government Council on Wednesday, who insisted that the Canary Islands Health Service is capable of inoculating between 25,000 and 30,000 people daily.
