The Health Area of Lanzarote hopes to have vaccinated against Covid-19 70% of the island's population "by the end of July", according to the manager of Health Services, José Luis Aparicio, who nevertheless specified that this will be subject "to the rate" at which vaccines are received.
So far the island has received three shipments of vaccines, a first of 65 doses, another of 260 and a third of 300, which arrived this Monday. As La Voz reported, the first two shipments were already fully administered in the residences of Haría, Las Cabreras, Tinajo and Tías and in the Insular Hospital, while the last 300 doses received will be administered from this Tuesday until Thursday, January 7.
"With this we will have completed the first objective, which is to protect the elderly living in residences and the staff who care for them", Aparicio pointed out.
Up to 500 vaccinations per day
The next objective, according to the manager of Health Services of Lanzarote, will be to vaccinate the front-line health professionals, who are "about 1,500 approximately on the island". "We will start with these professionals next week and the speed will be determined by the rate at which we receive the vaccines," said José Luis Aparicio.
Subsequently, following the strategy of the Ministry, the general population will be vaccinated, "but stratified by order of risk, that is, first those citizens who present some risk factor to suffer a serious coronavirus disease."
Aparicio detailed that the device for this phase was designed this Monday, with which "500 vaccinations a day, from Monday to Sunday" could be done, and with this "complete 70% of the population of Lanzarote by the end of July approximately." "But obviously, these data are subject to the rate at which we receive the vaccines," insisted the manager of Health Services on the island.
