This Monday Osakideca opens a vaccination campaign against influenza and covid for the entire population.

House of the Basque Health Service October 7 last year flu and covid vaccination campaign under the motto “With flu and Covid, don’t take risks. Get vaccinated” and with two ways to register: through the Osakidetza website or by calling the medical center.

For another year, along with the flu vaccine, the population at risk is offered the opportunity to simultaneously receive That vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 viruswhich has been updated to include an Omicron variant.

Giving priority at the first visit to people aged 60 years and older, people suffering from any type of chronic disease (lungs, heart, diabetes, etc.), as well as pregnant women, health care workers, social service workers and people involved in care, family members and People living in nursing homes, starting this Monday, vaccination will be open to the entire population.

In addition, systematic vaccination is carried out in Osakidetz for the second year in a row. against influenza for children over 6 months and under 5 years of agebecause it included this vaccine in the vaccination schedule for children in this age group. People over 5 years of age who are at risk will also be vaccinated.

As a new item, children from 20 months to 5 yearsthey will be administered intranasal vaccinewhich avoids puncture and therefore higher adhesion is expected.

The intranasal influenza vaccine will be exclusive to the above child populationso that most of the population will receive the intramuscular quadrivalent vaccine, which will increase their protection against different strains of influenza: 2 types A and 2 types B.

755,600 doses of flu vaccine

For this campaign they purchased 700,000 doses of flu vaccine quadrivalent fractionated inactivated virus, intended for the population from 6 months; and 19,500 doses of quadrivalent influenza vaccine with a high antigen load of split viruses

inactivated for institutionalized people aged 65 years and older.

were also purchased 1100 doses of flu vaccine using tetravalent cell cultureintended for people with allergies to eggs and/or aminoglycosides from 2 years of age, as well as 35,000 doses of intranasal attenuated vaccineDesigned for children from 24 to 59 months.

A total of 755,600 doses of influenza vaccine will be available, which, should demand increase, They can be expanded by 20% to reach 906,720 doses.this is the highest amount ever predicted by Osakidetz in his 36 years of campaigning.

Dhealth department insists that Vaccine is the best way to protect the populationespecially when simultaneous circulation of influenza and covid is possible this year and remember that both influenza and coronavirus infection “These are two major public health problems.”the transmission routes of which are simply concentrated in the entire population when coughing, talking or sneezing.

In addition to vaccination, the Ministry of Health and Osakidetza remember that influenza and covid can be prevented by observing a number of measures, such as hand hygiene, avoiding crowds, ventilating indoor spaces and using a mask.