Levante: Valencia and Levante offer their stadiums as mass vaccination centers against covid-19 | Football24 News English

Levante The Generalitat expects a second major immunization phase for the month of April

Lftbol clubs Levante and Valencia have offered their stadiums so they can become mass vaccination centers, and at Generalitat Valenciana deems it appropriate, as confirmed by Marca. Both entities have offered these large spaces and that are within the municipality of Valencia –and the highest concentration of population in the Community Valenciana- as logistics centers for a hypothetical mass vaccination plan. The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, announced that from Monday, February 15th to March 31st the Community has already guaranteed the reception of, at least, 559.020 doses of vaccines against Covid – 19, so the forecast is that by the end of March there will be more than 300,000 people vaccinated with the full schedule, the two doses, and in April the mass vaccination campaign can begin, reported EFE.

Initially, the vaccination campaign will follow the guidelines that have been adopted so far, that is, focused on health centers and residences for the elderly. “The top priority is the elderly and vulnerable. From month of April, If the pharmaceutical companies comply, we could be in a position to consider mass vaccination. We have created a working group to decide in which spaces could this massive vaccination take place. The objective is that the vast majority of Valencians can be vaccinated during the summer, “explained Puig.

Right now It is not decided what the places will be in which these massive vaccinations can be addressed. In fact, the mayor of Valencia, Joan Rib, has also referred to enabling the casales falleros or municipal sports centers as vaccination centers, as long as the technicians approve that they could guarantee essential sanitary requirements. According to the President of the Generalitat, the estimates of the Ministry of Health and the European health authorities point because from April the arrival of vaccines will accelerate with greater intensity. For this reason, a working group has already been created to design this new phase and immediately begin to visit suitable spaces in the three provinces where the mass vaccination process will take place.