The 52,000 doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine that were scheduled to arrive in Spain today have already landed, and will be distributed tomorrow, throughout the mainland and from tomorrow (Tuesday) to the Balearic and the Canary Islands, the Ministry of Health has informed in a press statement.
This is Moderna's second round of vaccines, after the first arrived on January 12th with 35,700 doses. The doses, as the press release explains, have been delivered to the Ministry's storage facilities in the mainland, where they have been certified by technicians from the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps).
The new Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, announced on Thursday after the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (SNS) that this new batch of Moderna vaccines with 52,000 doses was coming.
According to the delivery schedule established by Moderna, this batch consists of 520 boxes, with 100 doses in each. The agreement with Moderna establishes that the number of doses will progressively increase in future deliveries, so that there are 600,000 doses here before the end of February.
The Ministry of Health highlights that Moderna's vaccine uses messenger RNA and is also in two doses, like BioNTech / Pfizer, and that the 1,779,570 doses that Spain plans to receive from Pfizer during the month of February, must be added to the doses of Moderna, which means more than 2,340,000 doses from these two pharmaceutical companies will be delivered.
Likewise, the department headed by Carolina Darias, stresses that the first deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine, a drug authorized last Friday by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), must also be added, and regarding the Pfizer vaccine, Health indicates that from now on six doses per vial will be counted, as stated by the minister.
