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| With regard to the flu, the Municipal Vaccination Service has vaccinated 10,005 people during this last campaign, belonging to the period 2020/2021, from the points of Plaza Preciosa and Gunpowder Garden | The City Council, through the Municipal Vaccination Service, protects a total of 6,286 people against Covid-19.

This figure corresponds to the vaccines administered since December 29, the date on which the campaign began, and those scheduled until next Sunday. Following the instructions of the Ministry of Health, this week the second dose was administered in Jesús Abandonado and today it is being carried out in sheltered homes belonging to the Alfa de Ceutí Association, Torre de Cotillas and Afesmo in Molina de Segura. Other centers where work has already been done during this first phase have been the Hermanitas de Los Pobres de Puente Tocinos Residence, the Betania Home for the Elderly, the sheltered apartment, the Nazaret Home Residence, the Curae Mentis de Santa Cruz sheltered home, the Sangonera la Verde CEOM, the hospitals of La Vega, Quirónsalud in El Infante, Mesa del Castillo, as well as the centers of Molina de Segura, Alcantarilla and Ibermutuamur. Likewise, the Service has also vaccinated dentists, physiotherapists, workers in clinics and medical consultations and employees of the Cleaning Service from the points of Plaza Preciosa and Jardín de la Pólvora who are in charge of preparing medical offices and disinfecting the areas where positive, as well as nursing and medical students on the occasion of the beginning of their practices in hospital centers. “Our resources are at the service of the Ministry of Health to reach the largest number of people.

This week we have begun with the administration of the second dose and we continue with the tasks of coordinating the logistics necessary to undertake the campaign ”, highlighted the Councilor for Sports and Health, Felipe Coello. The Municipal Vaccination Service collaborates with the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health in coordinating the logistics necessary to undertake the campaign with the aim of reaching the entire population. More than 10,000 people vaccinated against the flu The City Council, through the Municipal Vaccination Service, has protected a total of 10,005 people from the flu during this last campaign, belonging to the 2020/2021 period. These doses have been administered from the municipal offices of Plaza Preciosa and Jardín de la Pólvora, this last point was enabled this year in order to maximize the coverage of the doses. 20 years without measles, 10 years without rubella Murcia has not registered any case of measles in 20 years or rubella in 10 years.

The Councilor for Health and Sports, Felipe Coello, points out that "the municipality is a safe place, with a solid group immunity, and all this is thanks to the excellent work of the Vaccination Service, acting with a great response capacity." There was a first monovalent vaccine against measles that began to be used in 1963, but in Spain and Murcia it had almost no impact on the epidemiology of the disease. In 1981, the Triple Viral (Measles, Rubella and Mumps) was introduced into the vaccination schedule, in the following years the expansion of the health system, with the development of primary care and computerized vaccination programs, led to a rapid increase in vaccination coverage, which increased from figures to around 90% in the 1980s, 95% in the 1990s and 98% in the 2000s. The decline of the disease began in the 90s and the number of cases was drastically reduced, until in 1999 a single case was declared in the municipality of Murcia, 20 years without endemic transmission. Regarding rubella, in 2016 the WHO declared that Spain had eliminated this disease, after a period of 36 months without endemic transmission (2013, 2014 and 2015).

In the municipality of Murcia, no case of rubella has been declared since 2008, the year in which only one case was declared.

It has been 10 years of zero incidence, and since then about 50,000 cases of rubella have been avoided, with congenital rubella embryopathy having completely disappeared. The MMR vaccine contains antigens against measles, rubella and mumps, which is why vaccination coverage has been identical since 1981 for measles and rubella. Herd immunity since 1984 The Municipal Vaccination Service has watched over the collective immunity of the population since 1984.

The role of the Municipal Health Services in the area of ??vaccinations is to manage and direct the program at the municipal level.

In addition, there are two central points, in Plaza Preciosa and Jardín de la Pólvora, where the entire population is attended free of charge. “The objective is to obtain a good level of herd immunity, which avoids epidemics and in some cases reaches the eradication of the disease.

In this sense, it is worth highlighting the effort and work of the Vaccination Service of the Council of Health of the City Council, the Pediatric Services in the Health Centers and of all the administrations, in addition to the exemplary behavior of the citizens, who trust in a public health that is proud to have one of the best pediatric and pediatric nursing services in the world ”, highlighted the mayor. Regarding logistics, the Ministry of Health acquires the vaccines it administers through public tenders and distributes them to the management centers, Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca, and these are responsible for distributing them to health centers and clinics. The doses that the health sector administers in Murcia pass through the vaccine chamber located in Plaza Preciosa, from where they are distributed to the 60 points in the municipality.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia