Today at 3pm, families of children between the ages of nine and eleven will be able to request their vaccinations through BitCita, announced the director of care Ib-Salut, Eugènia Carandell yesterday, who explained that the first doses in Ibiza will be administered tomorrow afternoon at health centers. Yesterday, the Health Department did not yet know whether the vaccinations in Ibiza would be administered in all the centres, but Carandell said that this afternoon, when the families request appointments they will be informed with the options.
Although it will begin with those between nine and eleven years, the objective of the Conselleria is to vaccinate children between five and eleven years in the coming weeks. A total of 11,100 children in the case of the Pitiusas, as detailed by the Balearic Ministry of Health yesterday: 10,365 in Ibiza and 735 in Formentera.
Both Carandell and the Balearic Health Councillor, Patricia Gómez, stressed that minors must go to vaccination points accompanied by an adult who authorises the dose to be administered. Precisely, yesterday afternoon the first doses of the Pfizer children’s vaccine was scheduled to arrive in the Balearic Islands. A total of 36,000 of which 6,000 will be sent to Ibiza, the same as Menorca, while 24,000 will remain in Mallorca. Those responsible from the ministry have indicated that tbe first distribution has been done in this way as the boxes contain 6,000 doses. “Then we will see what is done,” she said about the doses that will arrive later to the islands.
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