Spain’s PM vows to ‘vaccinate without respite’ as he steps up pace of jabs

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Spain is stepping up its vaccination drive&comma; with prime minister Pedro Sanchez saying that a steep rise in deliveries over coming months will allow the country to inoculate 70&percnt; of its adult population&comma; some 33 million people&comma; against Covid-19 by the end of August&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The priority now&comma; more than ever&comma; is to vaccinate without respite&comma;” Mr Sanchez told a news conference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Vaccinate&comma; vaccinate and vaccinate&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spain’s new Covid-19 infections have been edging higher in recent weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 14-day cumulative incidence&comma; a key contagion metric&comma; rose on Monday to 163 cases per 100&comma;000 people&comma; from 149 a week earlier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spain expects to receive 87 million doses by September&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Anyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one&comma;” Mr Sanchez said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those deliveries will include 38 million between April and June&comma; 3&period;5 times more than in January-March&comma; Mr Sanchez said&comma; when vaccine deliveries across Europe fell short of expectations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To help the rollout pick up speed&comma; some cities are opening mass vaccination centres&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Spanish health system has capacity to inoculate 3&period;5 million people a week&comma; according to Mr Sanchez&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Sanchez set out a series of intended milestones&colon; five million people vaccinated by the first week of May&comma; 10 million by early June&comma; 15 million by mid-June and 25 million by July 15&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Supplies of the recently approved Janssen vaccine will help add momentum to the rollout&comma; with five million of those jabs expected by the end of June&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are at the beginning of the end of the pandemic&comma;” Mr Sanchez said&comma; though such hopes have risen before in Europe only to be dashed by unforeseen problems with vaccine production&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said that under the national vaccination programme about 98&percnt; of people who live in elderly care homes or who are disabled have already received a first jab&comma; while almost 80&percnt; of people over the age of 80 have had their first dose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e292e8b563e">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e292e8b563e'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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