The Balearic Health Service (IbSalut) is to set up a system to help patients who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, but who have only received one dose of the vaccine and therefore have problems travelling to certain countries.
At a press conference, IbSalut’s Director of Health Care, Eugènia Carandell, explained that young people who have had the disease only receive one dose of the vaccine, but countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States do not accept this in their certificates as a guarantee for travel.
As such, IbSalut will include a section on its website so that these people can request, if necessary, a second dose of the covid vaccine.
Carandell pointed out that it is necessary to request the second dose “well in advance”, allowing at least three weeks, “to overcome the problem”, since the certificates require a 14-day interval from full vaccination in order to be considered valid.
She also recommended consulting the official websites of the destination countries to find out the specific requirements. In general, up-to-date certificates “should be sufficient” for travel to EU countries.
People in Ibiza with only one Covid vaccine
Around 90,000 people fit this profile – people vaccinated with a single dose after having had the disease. The Balearic Islands has approximately 300,000 coronavirus vaccines in its refrigerators.
Meanwhile, when asked by the media about the possibility of vaccinating health workers with a third dose, Carandell limited her comments to pointing out that the Balearic Islands are complying with the national strategy, although she pointed out that health workers are “healthy people”, and at the moment the third dose is being considered for patients with a lower immune response capacity.
Gómez insisted once again that vaccination limits transmission and the risk of suffering serious symptoms of COVID in the event of contracting the disease. According to data from admissions to intensive care units in public health centres in the Balearic Islands, the risk of admission to the ICU is 20 times higher in unvaccinated people over 60 years of age, and 14 times higher in people under 60 years of age.