This announcement has been made by Margaritis Schinas, vice president of the European Commission, in the company of Carolina Darias, who agrees that they have already exceeded 100.000 vaccinated in Canary Islands.
Schina's Margaritis, Vice-President for the Promotion of our European Way of Life of the Commission, He was confident of reaching 70% of the vaccinated population during the summer. Specifically on July 14, a symbolic date of the day of the storming of the Bastille and National Day of France, the European Union will reach its vaccination goal.
On the other hand, Joe Biden, United States's president, also aims to reach normalcy on July 4, Independence Day of the United States.
The problems with AstraZeneca have not been an impediment for Europe to consider meeting this objective. Also Schinas acknowledges in this meeting organized by the newspaper El País, Ciclo Europa Futura, that the EU was very naive in not insisting that the pharmaceutical company comply with the contract.
Regarding the reactivation of mobility, Schinas also pointed out that "when we are approaching the last phase of vaccination, there will be an increase in the demand for mobility". Something to take advantage of and encourage the reactivation of the economy in the second half of the year.
As of May 17, the United Kingdom will begin to resume international travel, so Europe is already preparing not to miss the summer. En este sentido, the famous vaccination certificate will be the protagonist so that traveling in Europe does not suppose a risk.
Caroline Darias, Minister of Health, was also present at that meeting. In it acknowledged the error of the "save Christmas" phase, since modifying the security measures led to a greater number of infections. Therefore, for Easter, he asks citizens for responsibility so that the same thing does not happen again.
The minister also confirmed the EU forecast about having 70% of the Spanish population vaccinated during the summer, 33 million people. For that, an arrival of vaccines to Spain in April is important. In this line, the autonomous communities received a little more than a million doses yesterday, approximately 70% from Pfizer and the rest from Moderna.
The idea is to multiply by three the vaccination rate in April, with the increase in the arrival of vaccines. Although it also confirmed that the vaccination rate is increasing, with those over 80 years of age being the priority objective. He hopes that in the following weeks this group will be fulfilled.
In the Canary Islands, more than 100.000 people have been vaccinated, which reaffirms that in the archipelago vaccination is going at a good pace. Too insists on the ability to vaccinate more than 30.000 people a day, something that will begin to be done next week. With the arrival of Janssen, which only requires one dose and the latest arrival of Pfizer and Moderna, there is confidence in reaching the vaccination goal.
Lastly, The group of people over 80 years of age in Canary Islands are unhappy to see how they begin to vaccinate younger people. Therefore, they ask to be immunized as soon as possible.
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