María del Pilar Pérez Hernández, 81 years old, is the first person to be vaccinated against covid in Lanzarote, in a campaign that began this Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and will reach 7,000 people in the next 20 days. María del Pilar received the vaccine at the Amavir residence in Haría at around 2:40 p.m.
At around 2:00 p.m., the helicopter landed with the vaccines and personnel from the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium unloaded and transported the vaccines against covid to the Amavir Haría Residence where vaccination began. In total, in Lanzarote, a total of 65 people from the Amavir residences of Haría and Las Cabreras Dr. Domingo Guzmán have been vaccinated.
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has celebrated the arrival of the first vaccines against COVID-19 to the islands and said that today is "a day for hope and illusion."
The president has made an institutional declaration to assess this first day, in which seven women between 77 and 87 years old have received the first vaccines against the coronavirus.
Ángel Víctor Torres highlighted that this is the best way to end the year and, without a doubt, "the beginning of the end." "The beginning is the vaccine and the end is to end against COVID-19," he said.
He advanced that from tomorrow until next March, the Canary Islands will receive a batch of 13,750 doses of the Pfizer vaccine each week, to which vaccines from other laboratories will then be added.