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ARCHIVED - 20 to 29-year-olds to be vaccinated over next 15 days in Valencia region
Twenty-somethings make up 10 per cent of the population across the three provinces, including Alicante, but account for a third of new infections.
The Valencia regional government has been voicing plans to accelerate the vaccination of 20 to 29-year-olds for the last two weeks following a spike in infections amongst younger people, and has now confirmed immunisation of this particular age group will begin this week.
While twenty-somethings represent a tenth of the region's population, they currently account for a third of all new Covid diagnoses, and the 14-day cumulative indence rate for 20 to 29-year-old has surpassed 1,000 cases per 100,000 young people.
The immunisation will begin from today, Monday, July 19, in those health departments that are "more advanced" in the vaccination process, most of them located in inland areas where the lower population density has made it possible to progress with jabs more rapidly.
But from July 26, the Ministry of Health plans to have started administering Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to this age group across the region.
Whilst insisting that the vaccine is the "most important asset" to get out of the pandemic, president of the Valencia government, Ximo Puig has again called on the public to exercise for "prevention and caution", warning that one per cent of those aged between 10 and 29 are currently infected.
"For this reason we need maximum prudence until group immunity is reached", he has urged, though calls for responsible behaviour appear to have gone unheard over the weekend with police having to break up a number of large illegal boltellon drinking sessions.
With 20 to 29-year-olds now scheduled, "the next step is to address the return to school in September of 12 to 18-year-olds", and Puig plans to meet with the Ministry of Health and Education today to plan the vaccination program ahead of a return to classrooms.
Two thirds of the region (65 per cent) have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, and more than half (53 per cent) are fully immunised, with the government remaining confident the "entire region" will have be vaccinated by October 9.
IMAGE: GVA
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