Primary vaccination of children and immobilized people begins in a medical institution.

The flu and COVID vaccination campaign is progressing as planned, including primary care as of yesterday Monday. Once the process is complete in homes for the elderly and people with disabilities, it will be the turn of people confined to their homes and children, although they will only be vaccinated against influenza.

In the case of adults, these are people who, due to mobility and health problems, cannot leave their homes. They will be offered both flu and coronavirus vaccines.

New this year, your primary carer will also be vaccinated if you wish, so they will be immunized at the same time, minimizing the risks of infection as much as possible.

intranasal option

As for children. Also yesterday his protection against the flu began. These are children under five years of age, with an important change: children aged two to five years will receive the intranasal vaccine, thus avoiding a puncture, since at this time they have many vaccines on the calendar.

In the district of Pontevedra, 5,476 children were called up, to which should be added 1,881 children from O Salnes.

Removed from the calendar

For the rest of the general population, vaccination is not recommended unless the person is under 60 years of age, does not belong to a risk group, or is immunocompromised.

“Variants change and viruses learn. The vaccine we give now in 2024 is not the same as the vaccine we gave in 2021. But the entire population has never been vaccinated against flu or COVID. Now it is recommended only for risk groups. If someone has recently had coronavirus, they should wait three months to get vaccinated,” says Silvia Amoedo, deputy director of primary health care for the health department of Pontevedra and O Salnes.

SMS to mobile phone for people over 80 years old

The non-nursing home population over 80 will have their turn to receive flu and COVID vaccines on October 14th. 17,254 people from Pontevedra and 5,204 people from O Salnes will receive an SMS on their mobile phone in which they will be called at the right time and to the main health center in their area, and in the case of the municipality of Pontevedra – 15. “For example, in In Pontevedra, residents of Monte Porreiro, Barro and Campo Lameiro must go to Leres,” explains Silvia Amoedo. Also on October 14, medical center staff and people with weakened immune systems will also be vaccinated against influenza and coronavirus. Large sites, known as “vaccination sites”, will open from October 28 for double vaccinations. In the case of Pontevedra, it replicates the administrative building of Cunta in Campolongo and in O Salnes the Vilagarcia Hospital. The first to participate will be people in the age group from 70 to 79 years, pregnant women, risk groups and the rest of the target population. From there they drop down to 60 years. Two vaccines will be offered to all citizens in the healthcare sector, which in the case of COVID are produced by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

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