The ‘vacuguaguas’, launched in collaboration with the CitySightseeing company, will once again tour Tenerife and Gran Canaria from next week promoting vaccination against Covid-19 between the population of both capital islands.
According to the Ministry of Health, in these devices, the nurses of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) will administer the booster dose for over 40s who have not yet accessed it and complements the vaccination points already existing on the islands.
In this itinerant campaign, which was already active last summer, two tourist buses, silk-screened and equipped for vaccination, will tour the areas of cities and towns on both capital islands. with greater influx of people.
For its part, the vacuguagua of Gran Canaria It will be in the parking lot of the Santa Brígida Health Center on January 4 and 7 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on Wednesday, January 5, it will be located in the parking lot of the El Calero Health Center (Telde) between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
In this way, the vacuguagua of Tenerife will be installed lJanuary 3, 4, 5 and 7 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Avda Mercedes Pinto de Armas, number 4, in La Orotava.
The route of the following days will be announced progressively through the social networks of the Ministry of Health: @SanidadGobCan on Twitter and @ sanidad.gobcan on Facebbok.
Booster dose
Similarly, these mobile devices will manage booster doses of this vaccine to people 40 years of age or more, that is, those born before 1981 that have been vaccinated with messenger RNA (Pzifer or Moderna). This group will be able to receive the booster dose from six months after the administration of the second dose.
In addition to those over 40, those people can receive the booster dose vaccinated with two doses of AstraZeneca (or one from AstraZeneca and one from Pfizer) of any age range. This group can be given the booster dose after three months.
Also, people vaccinated with JanssenRegardless of their age, they can receive their booster dose starting at three months.
For get the vaccine in these tourist buses it is necessary to be a resident in Canary Islands, present DNI / NIE when accessing the vehicle and, in the case of minors under 16 years of age, go to these vaccination points accompanied by their mother, father or legal guardian.
Finally, and as a complement to this itinerant campaign, the Ministry of Health recalls that people over 5 years of age they can continue to request an appointment to get vaccinated against Covid-19 Calling 012 (928 301 012 or 922 470 012) or through the SCS website and the myPreview app.
