More than 60% of people over 80 years of age have had a second booster dose against COVID-19

More than 60% of people over 80 years of age in Spain have now had the second booster dose of the vaccine against COVID-19.

This follows from the latest report ‘Comprehensive Vaccination Management’ GIV-COVID19 published this Friday by the Ministry of Health, where data on the development of the campaign is collected until last Wednesday, November 9.

In total, there are already 4,631,612 people over 60 years of age who have received this second ‘booster’ with vaccines adapted to the sub lineages of the Omicron variant of the SAR-CoV-2 virus.

To the 1,732,297 people aged 80 or over who have received this second reinforcement, we must add the 1,639,575 people between 70 and 79 years old (more than 41%) and the 1,259,740 people between 60 and 69 years old (almost 23%), who have also received this second booster dose, placing the degree of coverage among people over 60 years of age at 37.4%.

Following the first booster dose campaign, which made the vaccine available to the majority of the adult population, the overall take up was around 55%, far less then those who had received the initial two doses. Currently, 92.2% of the population over 60 years of age already have the first booster dose against COVID-19: 11,418,493 people, and so, according to this fihure, it is those under 60 who have not had this additional protection.

The vaccination campaign with a second booster dose began on September 26 in all the autonomous communities and cities and, until the end of the year, Spain will receive 44 million adapted vaccines, from Pfizer and Moderna.

According to the agreement reached by the Public Health Commission, the groups to which this campaign is initially directed are people over 80 years of age and people who live in nursing homes, and later to health and socio-health personnel, people over 60 years of age and people who have not completed their immunisation.

Spain is one of the most prominent countries in terms of vaccination worldwide. Since the start of the first vaccination campaign against COVID-19, on December 27, 2020, milestones have been gradually reached in this regard.

Thus, Spain was the first to vaccinate 100% of its population over 80 years of age and has high vaccination coverage rates: 92.8% of people over 12 years of age with a complete schedule (more than 39.1 million inhabitants) and 80% of those over 40 years of age with a booster dose, so again, from this figure, we can deduce that it is those under 40 not receiving the booster.

Likewise, Spain has made 70 million doses of vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 available to third countries, ranking among the top 10 countries in the world with the highest effective donation through the COVAX mechanism.