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More than six million people in Spain now have the full protection offered by the Covid-19 vaccines being used by the countryâs health authorities. After a slow start to the campaign in the first quarter of the year, the speed of the process is getting faster every week, and yesterday saw Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez venture to put a date on the end of the health crisis: August 18. âWe are just 100 days from achieving group immunity,â he announced. âThatâs to say, managing to vaccinate 70% of the Spanish population, thus immunizing them.â Group or herd immunity refers to a situation where sufficient levels of the population are protected against the virus so as to impede its circulation.
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With the end of the state of alarm set to end on Sunday, many of Spainâs regions â which are in charge of controlling the pandemic in their territories â are increasingly worried about what impact this will have on efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus. For the past six months, the emergency measure has given the regions the authority to introduce restrictions that curb fundamental rights, such as the nighttime curfew, without facing challenges in the courts. But there is concern that could all change on May 9, when the state of alarm comes to an end.
In a bid to ease these fears, the Spanish government â a coalition of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and junior partner Unidas Podemos â has approved a royal decree that gives the Supreme Court the final word on coronavirus restrictions. The new rule, published Wednesday in the Official State Bulletin (BOE), aims to prevent the legal chaos that occurred last year between June and October, when judges from l
People wait in line for the Covid-19 vaccine outside Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid.Jaime Villanueva / EL PAÃS
The Covid-19 vaccination drive in Spain is speeding ahead. The regions â which are in charge of the vaccine rollout as well as containing the pandemic in their territories â are making a huge effort to deploy resources and set up mass vaccination sites to accelerate the immunization drive.
A total of 100% of the over-80s have received the first dose and 78% have received the two shots needed for full protection in the case of the Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna vaccines. Some 67% of people in the 70-79 age group have also received at least one dose. In the last week, more than 400,000 doses were administered a day, which has pushed up the number of people aged 60-69 who have been vaccinated. Nearly half of this age group â 47% â has received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine â a total of 2.5 million people.