Vaccination against influenza and Covid opens to the entire target population from Monday 11th.

Starting next Monday, November 11, the vaccination campaign against influenza and covid extends to the entire target group of the population, that is, to those for whom vaccination is recommended in order to avoid health complications. All people in these groups can now make an appointment through the Salud Informa app.

Vaccination began on 1 October in care homes and health and social care staff associated with those homes, as well as primary care staff and pregnant women.

Later, other population groups joined the campaign. who is recommended for vaccination, for example, people over 85 years of age, for whom immunization began on October 14, or children from October 21.

Starting next Monday, all groups eligible for this immunization will be able to be vaccinated. The main goal of the campaign is to protect people at higher risk of complications from influenza and covid.

due to age or previous pathologies.

Target Populations

Because of the greater risk of complications or serious conditions if they contract these infections, this group includes people aged 60 years and older, people aged 5 years and older, those living in disability centers and nursing homes, and others. people who have been institutionalized for a long time and live in closed institutions.

Also for persons under 60 years of age with risk conditions such as diabetes mellitus, morbid obesity, chronic cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory diseases.including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, immunosuppression and others.

Similarly for pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and women in the postpartum period – up to 6 months after birth and not vaccinated during pregnancy -; also people living with people who are highly immunosuppressed, people living with people with other high-risk diseases.

To reduce exposure and maintain critical and essential services for the community, this group includes employees of public and private health and social health centers – both medical and non-medical, excluding students for whom COVID-19 vaccination is only recommended. . flu–.

Likewise, people who work in the core government services, with particular emphasis on subsets of government security forces and agencies.with national, regional or local dependence, firefighters and civil protection services.

Target population against influenza

For influenza, target populations are people aged 5 to 59 years who are at higher risk of complications from influenza, for example, people aged 5 to 18 years who are receiving long-term treatment with acetylsalicylic acid due to the possibility of developing Reye’s syndrome after influenza and in smokers. Also, students undergoing internships in medical and socio-medical centers, people who have direct professional contact with animals or their excretions on farms or poultry farms, pig farms or mink farms or with wild fauna – birds, wild boars or mustelids – and the child population from 6 to 59 months.

Children under 2 years old will be given an intramuscular injection, and from two years old – intranasally. This also includes staff from day care centers and early childhood education centers for children under 5 years of age.

Additionally, outside the normal flu and covid pattern, there are several vaccine-recommended populations that will not be able to self-administer a vaccine through the Salud Informa app. At the same time, there are, for example, kindergarten workers or teachers who, due to their age, do not fall into risk groups. To get vaccinated, these people must make an appointment with a nurse in advance.