The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands has informed that they have now administered 730,898 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, with the immunization of 235,879 people who have either had two doses or the Janssen single dose, which represents 12.61% of the target population (1,871,033 people).
In addition, there are 490,041 people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine in the Archipelago, which is 26.19% of the target population.
After immunization with two doses of groups 1 and 2 (residents and workers of social health centres and front-line health professionals), vaccination continues with the rest of the groups established following the criteria of vulnerability and exposure.
Given the advance of vaccination of vulnerable groups and the arrival of sufficient doses, the Ministry of Health has taken up the agendas of groups 3 (other health and social health personnel not included in group 2) and 6 (essential personnel in which they include, among other groups, teachers and local police) and this weekend the vaccination of the group of teachers, fire-fighters and local police officers resumed. The summons will be as it has been done until now, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Fecam and professional associations.
Vaccination groups:
In the latest revision of the National Vaccination Strategy, the following vaccination and prioritization groups are established:
STAGE I:
Group 1: COMPLETE
Residents and health and social health personnel who work in residences for the elderly and care for large dependents.
Group 2: COMPLETE
Front-line personnel in the health and social-health field (different from group 1).
Group 3: 100% with one dose and 30.43% with two doses.
Other health and socio-health personnel (not included in group 2)
Group 4: 92.73% immunized with two doses.
People considered highly dependent (grade III) and main carers.
STAGE II:
Group 5: 86.61% with one dose and 47.02% with two doses.
People aged over 65, over 70, over 80+, non-residents of nursing homes.
Group 6: 34.34% with one dose.
Active groups with an essential function for society (Teachers, police, security forces).
Group 7: 59.31% with one dose.
People under 60 with very high risk health conditions.
These include: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, solid organ transplantation (and on waiting list for it), people on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, oncohematological diseases, solid organ cancer being treated with cytotoxic, metastatic chemotherapy or with radiotherapy for tumors of thoracic location with risk of pneumonitis, Primary immunodeficiencies, HIV infection with less than 200 cells/ml despite effective ART and undetectable viral load, and Down syndrome (aged 40 and over).
Group 8: People between 60 and 65 years of age (born between 1956 and 1961, both inclusive).
Group 9: NOT STARTED YET
People between 51 and 59 years of age (born between 1962 and 1970, inclusive).
