Spain health minister predicts 70% vaccination by the end of summer 2021
Monday, December 14, 2020 @ 11:04 AM
Health minister, Salvador Illa (pictured above), said today he believed we were seeing the "beginning of the end" of the pandemia and that by the end of the summer he expected 70% of Spain's population to be vaccinated, generating enough herd immunity "not to see a definitive end, but to put us in a very different state" from our current one.
Illa was confident that the Spanish health authorities would be able to start administering vaccines at the beginning of January and "if all goes well" have a significant proportion of the Spanish and European population vaccinated within five or six months.
"By the end of the summer, 70% of the population will probably be vaccinated. This is a lot, but it won't mean the end of the pandemia, because this will only come about when we have immunised a high percentage of the population worldwide, which will take all of 2021 and a good part of 2022 too, according to the experts", he explained.
Nevertheless, the health minister warned people not to let their guard down too early and to continue employing protective measures like wearing masks and practising social distancing until a significant proportion of the population is vaccinated.
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