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THE Spanish government want to include the single-shot Janssen vaccine“immediately” after it won approval by European regulations, said Health Minister Carolina Darias. Nearly 150,000 doses are in a Spanish warehouse, a batch of 300,000 are about to be delivered – and 5.5 million shots will be received this quarter and a further 12 million in January, August and September. The European Medicines Agency rule the benefits of the Johnson & […]

Pfizer shot to follow AstraZeneca jab SPANISH doctors are staging a clinical trial over the effects of a second Pfizer jab to follow an initial dose of the AstraZeneca shot. It follows the government’s decision to limit the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged from 60 to 69 – the change came after it was linked to possible blood clots, mostly in young women. By the start of […]

SPAIN has successfully responded to the threat of a fourth wave of infection but people must not drop their guard. Fernando Simón, director of the government’s coordination centre for health alerts has said the rate of infections was slowing – an important change in the fortnight after the Easter break and the traditional movement and social activity over the national holidays. It was feared the vacation would trigger a new […]

SPAIN hopes to have its home-manufactured Covid-19 vaccine in arms before the end of the year, said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The premier was visiting pharmaceutical company Hipra in Amer, in the Catalan province of Girona, when he said the jab one of Europe’s most promising ways of ending the coronavirus pandemic. He underlined the vaccination programme as “the big hope” in the battle against the disease which has swept […]

SPAIN’S health ministry is considering a change to the Covid-19 vaccination programme and delaying second shots to people aged under 80. Those given the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may wait up to eight weeks for the second jab allowing the government to speed up immunisation to offer more people a level of protection. Described as a radical change and mirroring policy in the UK and Israel, the public health commission […]

THE coronavirus strain first identified in Britain is now responsible for 80% of infections across Spain and is more contagious, according to health experts. The variant was said to be at the root of the fourth wave of Covid-19 and dominant across the country but to date has not overwhelmed the Spanish health system despite fears it was more lethal – as experienced in other European countries. Scientists say more […]