OVIEDO, Spain
Araceli, a 96-year-old woman, laughed after receiving her first COVID-19 vaccine in Spain at a nursing home in Guadalajara on Sunday morning.
She said she felt the bullet.
“We’ll see if everyone behaves well and we can get rid of this virus,” said Araceli, who wore a blue pantsuit and white silk scarf for the first of her two roles. vaccine.
She is the oldest resident of Los Olmos nursing home.
Minutes later, Monica, an assistant nurse at the center, received the same Pfizer / BioNTech photo.
She said she was nervous, but her tension seemed to be greater as a result of sending an important message to the media than about the needle.
“We want most people to be vaccinated,” said Monica. “Many people have died and it is a shame that more people have not done long enough to get vaccinated. ”
She explained how the nursing home lost several people to COVID-19.
“They died without the warmth of the family, and it was sad. We’ll see if we can finish this soon, ”she said from behind two face masks.
Nearly 50,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Spain in less than a year, according to Spanish Ministry of Health data.
Spain plans to introduce the first phase of vaccinations on people like Araceli and Monica – residents and nursing home workers, as well as face-to-face health care workers and people with severe disabilities.
Over the next three months, Pfizer / BioNTech doses are expected to be enough for around 2.3 million people to reach Spain.
Spain, with a population of 47 million, has placed enough orders to vaccinate 80 million people. However, whether it all arrives depends on the success of five other vaccine companies.
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