Talking to a pal this morning and Ta-Da! - now we actually know someone who has had the "jab" in spain based on age. A couple that lives on the urbanisation where he lives were called in (individually) with a telephone call from the ayuntamiento asking them to go down to the central complex where they were jabbed with the Moderna vacccine (which I think is a single shot). Just knowing someone who has been jabbed is brilliant! I feel as if I have had a trace of it myself (not just the after-effects of last-night´s wine).
He (the reporter of this momentous event), was not a happy bunny, as he is actually 3 years older than either of these people, thus should have been done earlier than them, but, and despite being a fully tax-paid-up resident, he doesn´t us etheir free national health service but pays privateley, thus is not "in the list".
There was a letter in the paper this week from a lady in a similar predicament and she related the run-around she had been getting - ayuntamiento - junta - health centre - embassy - insurance company. Perm any sequence and they had managed to refer her to a different one.
Apparently the government have agreed that all people should be vaccinated by age, irrespective of health of residency status, but (and as ever) it was up to the local region to make it work - and the Andalucian Junta haven´t resolved how they will address that.
This is, of course, the same Junta that said that innoculating dentists would start atthe beginning of March, but still haven´t done the one I use. I related this to the local pharmacist and he said it was exactly the same for him. He had been promised it, but nothing had happened. This is a bloody pharmacists who is about as front-line as you can get without actually tending to the sick. It beggars belief that they can put public sector workers before them.
On Friday my builder came for his money and apologised for not turning up the previous day as promised as he had been at a funeral of someone from his wife´s family. An old guy who lived in the centre of the pueblo and whose family own the bar / restaurant about 50 yards down from the pharmacist I use.
So now we have the two issues converging - the first "family" death in the pueblo and the first jab for an elderly Brit resident.
Not a race you particularly want to be in, especially as the downside is terminal.
What a disgrace with your jabs .we are getting our second one on tuesday and 3 weeks early .Kath 43 got one on saturday at the muslim centre next to the university as 100s of no shows and rather than waste them the called people to go for them straight away. They had police and students getting them along with kath and her neighbours