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Date Published: 07/10/2021
ARCHIVED - Vaccination rate in Spain shoots up 10 points to 87.4 per cent
The Ministry of Health in Spain is now calculating the vaccination rate based only on those over the age of 12
Between Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, a further 31,082 people were fully vaccinated against coronavirus, bringing the total number of double jabbed people in Spain up to 36,771,680.
In percentage terms, however, the vaccination rate jumped by 10 points in just 24 hours, from 77.5% to 87.4%. The reason for this discrepancy is that the Ministry of Health in Spain has now changed the way it calculates the vaccinated population. From now on, rather than considering the Spanish population as a whole, the Ministry will refer to the ‘target population’, meaning all those over the age of 12.
The Spanish health authorities have now excluded children under 12 years old in the daily vaccination count as they are currently not being given the Covid jab, essentially reducing the size of the population and increasing the vaccine percentage rate.
On Tuesday, there were 37,741,414 people in Spain with at least one dose of the vaccine, representing 79.5% of the total population. By Wednesday, the number of first doses administered had risen by 14,268, but the vaccination rate once again shot up more than 10% by excluding younger children, bringing the figure up to 89.6%.
Incidentally, neither method of tracking vaccination rates corresponds with the European Commission or the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), which consider the adult population to be all those over the age of 18.
Further changes have been made by the Ministry of Health this week, as from Wednesday October 6 the daily vaccination count will include those who have received a third booster jab. To date, some 265,541 have been inoculated with an extra dose. The additional boosters are being administered to elderly people living in nursing homes, transplant and immunosuppressed cancer patients, people on dialysis and chemotherapy, those with cystic fibrosis and individuals over the age of 40 with Down syndrome.
At the end of October, all over 70s will be offered a third vaccine and the Public Health Commission has indicated that the campaign could soon be extended to include people over the age of 65.
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