The Spaniards plan to have half the population vaccinated by the end of July

Spain is accelerating the program vaccinations against Covid-19 and will have fully vaccinated 25 million people by the end of July, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today, also confirming the goal of end-August to have vaccinated 70% of Spaniards.

“The rate of vaccinations will accelerate in April and then every month we will improve the rate of vaccinations compared to the previous month,” Sanchez told a news conference, attributing the slow start of the campaign to delays in vaccine delivery by the drug. AstraZeneca throughout the European Union.

The July target covers 53% of Spain’s population of 47 million or 64% of all adults and is largely in line with the EU’s July target of vaccinating 70% of the total adult population.

Sanchez added that the number of fully vaccinated citizens would exceed the total number of Covid-19 cases, which stood at 3.3 million yesterday, by next week.

The aim of the government is not to prolong the state of emergency, which ends on May 9, after a implementation of 6 months, if the epidemiological indicators allow it, stressed the head of the Spanish government.

Spain will receive 87 million doses of vaccine between April and September, said Pedro Sanchez, with the volume of deliveries in the second quarter expected to exceed the January-March level by 3.5 times.

According to data released yesterday, about 5.7 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 2.8 million have been vaccinated with both doses.

At the same time, the Madrid regional government announced today that it had met with representatives of the Russian vaccine company Sputnik V to “explore ways to speed up the vaccination campaign”.