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Vaccination against Covid-19 is advancing at an agile and safe pace throughout the archipelago, although the population characteristics of each island and the logistics necessary to reach the different age groups, means thst they are all at different stages.

As of now, the most advanced in the vaccination plan is El Hierro, where around 28.1% of the population, which is 2,784 people, have been immunised, while the most lagging behind is Fuerteventura where only 12.1% of its residents have had two doses of vaccines, which means that 12,099 people have now been immunized.

After El Hierro, the islands where vaccination is the most advanced are La Gomera, with 21.1% (4,065 people) immunised, and La Palma, with 19.8% of its residents immunized, representing 14,430 people and then Gran Canaria, with 17.4% of its population immunized, 128,885 people.

Just behind Gran Canaria is Tenerife, where 16% of the population has been immunised which is, 127,885 people. Lanzarote, with 15.5% of its target population immunized (20,264 people), and Fuerteventura, where 12.1% of the population to be vaccinated has received the full schedule, are the two islands where progress is slower, possibly because they have a younger population.

El Hierro is also the island where the most people have received at least one dose as 50% of the population to be vaccinated has received their first jab. Tenerife, however, is the island with the lowest percentage of population with at least one inoculated dose; 34.5%, a total of 245,290 people. In Fuerteventura, 36.1% of the people to be vaccinated have received one dose; in Gran Canaria, 36.7%; in La Gomera, 39.9%; in La Palma, 44.9% and in Lanzarote, 46.6%.

As of yesterday in the Canary Islands, 17.4% of the target population, some 326,000 people, had been immunized against Covid, and 40%, about 750,000 people, had received at least one dose of a vaccine.

By age group, in most of the islands, the vaccination of people over 90 years of age has been completed, except in La Palma, where 92% of people of this age have been immunized, in El Hierro, with 98.5%, and in La Gomera, with 81% vaccinated with the two doses. 

This circumstance also occurs in the over 80s of La Gomera, who have only been immunized in 69.5%, while in the rest of the islands this percentage exceeds 87%. In the age group between 70 and 79 years, the island that is more advanced is Lanzarote, with 92% of the people of these ages with the two doses. In the rest of the islands, people of this age range are vaccinated with the two doses around 80%, except for La Gomera, where 64% have been immunized.

The island with the most vaccinated population between 60 and 69 years old is El Hierro, with 53% of the people of these ages with the two doses, followed by La Gomera, with 28.8% and Lanzarote, with 21%. In Gran Canaria 7.6% of people between 60 and 69 years old have been immunized, in Tenerife 5.3%, in Fuerteventura, 16% and in La Palma, 7%.

As for people between 50 and 59 years old, the most are immunized in La Gomera, with 14% of the population of this age with two doses. In the rest of the islands, this percentage is around 10%.