The second batch of Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19 has already arrived in the Canary Islands, so vaccination will resume this Wednesday in nursing homes and socio-health centers in the islands.
The vaccines arrived first thing in the morning at Tenerife North Airport and, as happened last Sunday, throughout the day they will be distributed to the seven islands of the archipelago.
The Government announced early this Tuesday the arrival in Spain of the 369,525 doses of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 that suffered a delay in their delivery -scheduled for this Monday- due to a logistical problem of the pharmaceutical company.
From Moncloa they have explained that the planned shipments of the vaccine of "have already arrived or are about to do so to the Spanish airports of Madrid, Barcelona, Vitoria, in the first place, and then to Valencia and Seville. In this last one, the landing is scheduled at 08:00.
After the arrival of the flights and the distribution for each autonomous community, the vaccine will be distributed so that mass vaccination begins this Tuesday in Spain, after the first doses were injected last Sunday.
As the Government has recalled, and as happened during the weekend, the Army will be in charge of taking the vaccines to the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.
The company informed the Ministry of Health late on Sunday that the delivery to Spain of the batch of vaccines committed was postponed for one day due to a "delay in shipments" from its factory in Puurs (Belgium) to eight European countries, including Spain, "due to a problem in the loading and shipping process."
