Free of Charge Vaccination starts today for people aged between 50 and 59 years

Free of charge vaccination against flu and Covid-19 is now available for the group between 50 and 59 years old. The decision to extend free vaccination is due to the current availability of 400 thousand doses, with the Directorate-General for Health predicting that it could reach 250 thousand people.

Given this availability, and as has been customary in other years, the DGS is “giving other age groups the possibility of being vaccinated free of charge”, said the deputy director of the DGS.

Peralta-Santos highlighted the importance of this vaccination taking place before the start of the Christmas and New Year festivities, a period of higher social contact.

With almost three months of the seasonal vaccination campaign having passed, the Deputy Director-General of Health made a “very positive overall assessment”, with around 2.2 million people vaccinated against the flu and 1.5 million against Covid-19.

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