The Canary Islands Health Service have managed to double the rate of vaccination, inoculating twice as many people on a daily basis than just a week ago. Some of the coronavirus vaccines are being administered at an average rate of 4,000 per day in the Islands, compared to the 2,000 in mid-February, as confirmed in the reports of the Ministry of Health.
Three main factors have contributed towards the increase:
- SUPPLY: More vaccines are starting to arrive in Spain, which means more for the Canary Islands, which is governed by the EU. The arrival of the AstraZeneca vaccine has helped increase the rate because it can only be administered to people under the age of 55, so the SCS have started on new groups of front-line workers under 55. So far the Canary Islands have received a total of 37,100 doses.
