The director of the Health Service of the Balearic Government, Eugenia Carandell, confirmed this morning at a press conference that on May 18 the next batch of the Janssen vaccine will arrive in the Balearic Islands, destined for Ibiza and Formentera.
The first batch of Janssen vaccines supplied to the Balearic Islands was allocated entirely to the island of Mallorca, which has meant that the percentage of the population immunised on this island has risen to 9%, while on Ibiza and Formentera the immunised population is only 6% and 5% respectively.
Carandell explained that this was due to technical reasons and does not respond to any grievance between islands: “Few doses arrived and had to be administered immediately. For practical and logistical reasons they had to be administered in Mallorca”, but he assured that the next doses will be destined for the Pitiusas with the aim of boosting the percentage of the population immunised on these islands.
During her appearance, Carandell also lamented the limited success of the campaign to vaccinate the 50-59 age group on the island of Formentera, as only 80 out of 290 people were vaccinated: “This should make us reflect, perhaps we should carry out an information campaign on the importance of getting vaccinated.
It was also announced that from Monday 10 May the BITCITA system, that has enabled the Government to request an appointment to be vaccinated, will be extended to people born between 1962 and 1966 .