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Date Published: 30/11/2021
ARCHIVED - 17 per cent of unvaccinated people in Alicante province live in Torrevieja
Almost one in five of the target population in the Vega Baja municipality have not yet been immunised
New figures from the Valencia region's Ministry of Health shows that 89.5% of the population in the province of Alicante has been vaccinated against Covid.
However, despite a continued surge in new infections and a sharp rise in the cumulative incidence rate, there are still municipalities in the region where resistance to immunisation is higher than others, despite the imminent implementation of the Covid passport.
This is the case in the Torrevieja health district, which is made up of 10 municipalities, where 18% of the those over the age of 12 have not received a Covid jab.
In the province as a whole, there are 177,011 people who, although they have had the opportunity to be immunised, have not done so. Of these, around 17% (30,811 people) live in the Torrevieja health area; Orihuela Costa; Pilar de la Horadada; Rojales; Guardamar del Segura; San Miguel de Salinas; San Fulgencio; Los Montesinos; Benijófar; and Formentera del Segura.
The most recent update also shows there are 17 Covid patients being treated at the University Hospital of Torrevieja, with three seriously ill in the 20-bed Intensive Care Unit. Two people have died from the virus at the hospital in the last seven days.
The 14-day cumulative incidence rate in Torrevieja is now teetering just below 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, only eight points less than the regional average, but considerably higher than Orihuela's 55 cases.
And recent outbreaks have meant that more than 500 pupils from municipalities in the Torrevieja area are currently confined to combat the spread of the virus, prompting further calls for those who have not yet been vaccinated to do so.
Of the 30,000-plus people who have not yet been immunised in the Vega Baja: 1,288 are over 80-years-old; 3,275 are between 70 and 80; 1,410 are between 66 and 69, and 2,278 are between 60 and 65 years.
Torrevieja health department has stressed that "vaccines continue to demonstrate their high efficacy against coronavirus almost a year after the first doses were introduced in Spain," and added that optimum "vaccine protection against severe Covid infection – the possibility of being admitted to the ICU or dying – remains very high at around 85% with the new mutations":
However, during a scientific conference on the Covid-19 Valencian Vaccine Research Program (ProVaVac) at the Regional Ministry of Health on Monday, Salvador Peiró, a researcher at Fisabio's Public Health department, revealed data which claims the percentage of protection against Covid, which was originally 75-85% six months after vaccination is now around 50%.
"The effect is waning in terms of protecting against infection, but it holds up very well in terms of developing serious Covid," he said, hence the importance of the third doses "because they reduce transmission significantly, as we are seeing in Israel, and reduce the number of serious cases".
Peiró told ministers that the priority at the moment must be administering third doses, even before vaccinating children.
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