This Thursday at half past four in the afternoon at Can Blai nursing home, the Balearic Ministry of Health will begin administering the third dose of the covid vaccine to residents of nursing homes for older people, as announced yesterday by the Ib-Salt Care Director, Eugenia Carandell. In total, in Ibiza there are four homes where the booster dose is scheduled to be administered to around 500 people, according to the Health Department (492 in total).
“This third dose is only being given to residents, not workers,” insisted Carandell, who pointed out that this booster is being administered to older people in residences following the Ministry of Health’s recommendation as part of the Vaccination Strategy. As with the first two doses, Primary Care vaccination teams will travel to the residences to inject them.
The Health Department hopes to complete this third round of coronavirus vaccinations among the residents of Ibiza’s old people’s homes during the first week of October, i.e. in just under three weeks. “They are very vulnerable, the sooner the better,” she said. The aim, reiterated Carandell, is to further protect these people against infection, many of whom have underlying conditions and are the most vulnerable to the virus, which means a greater risk of being hospitalised or in critical care units if they become infected.
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