Andalusia vaccinates: Andalusians aged 52 and 53 can now make an appointment for the first dose against Covid-19

Andalusia continues to advance towards immunity and, since this Tuesday, people born in 1969 and 1968 – that is, who turn 52 and 53 in 2021 – can already make an appointment for the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Immunization for this age group will be carried out mainly with Pfizer and Moderna.They can request an appointment through the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) website, through ClicSalud +, through the mobile application and the Salud Responde telephone number (955 54 50 60) and also at your health center, preferably by phone It should be remembered that the possibility of making a direct appointment continues to be operational for people aged 54 to 59, as well as for those aged 68 and over (born in 1953 and previous years). The number of appointments will be adjusted according to the available doses and the age cohorts will gradually open to the rest of the ages.The appointment for the first vaccination dose is available to people registered in the SAS user database, regardless of whether they have public or private insurance. People who have passed Covid-19 must wait six months from the diagnosis of the infection to be able to make an appointment.As for the appointment for the administration of the second dose, it cannot be requested through these routes and it will be facilitated in most of the cases at the time of vaccination or will be communicated later by your health center.In addition, the Board has announced that it will begin vaccinating people under 40 years of age on July 7. At the moment, the community already has 1,426,402 people immunized and 2,919,136 with at least one dose. Thus, the community has already vaccinated 20.2% of the population over 16 years of age with both doses.Other age groups The Vaccination Strategy continues to complete the immunization of people aged 60 to 69 years. People from 60 to 67 (born between 1961 and 1952) are summoned for vaccination by phone call or SMS, since this age group does not have an appointment request enabled. Likewise, it is expected to continue advancing with the vaccination of the population 50 and 51 years of age next week and continue with those under 50 years of age in the next week. In addition, those over 60 years of age who have not been cited due to not having updated data in the SAS database or due to another type of incident such as not having responded to the vaccination call or not having been able to attend the appointment, they have the option of contacting them through the telephone numbers provided for this purpose. These lines are served from each center and have been specifically reinforced. These phone numbers are published on the SAS website. The SAS website has a specific section on citation and Covid-19 vaccination with updated information that can be consulted here. Second dose to essential person In addition, this week the vaccination with AstraZeneca or Pfizer to people under the age of 60 in the core professional groups who have already received a first dose of AstraZeneca. Vaccination of these 259,071 professionals begins with those who have been waiting for more than twelve weeks. Vaccination of the homeless, in settlements and in therapeutic communities with the Janssen vaccine has also been carried out. The essential groups pending to receive a first dose, which are being inoculated with messenger RNA preparations, are also being vaccinated; it’s about 71.000 people from law enforcement agencies, teachers and other workers in Groups 3 and 6 pending since the possibility of administering the first dose of AstraZeneca to children under 60 years of age was suspended, of which more than half have already been vaccinated. , Andalusia expects to receive 404,730 doses: 303,030 from Pfizer, 55,000 from Moderna, 46,700 doses from AstraZeneca.