In a bid to help the Covid-19 vaccination campaign move forward as quickly and as safely as possible, the City Council has granted the use of three municipal premises which are already being used to administer the jabs. The three spaces are centres for the elderly: the Casal de Gent Gran Joan Casanelles, the Casal de Gent Gran Quatre Cantons and the Espai de Gent Gran Montserrat Olivella.

Forty other municipal spaces close to primary healthcare centres (CAP) and used for the flu jab campaign have also been made available to the Catalan government. Twenty-three nurses have also been mobilised to help with the vaccination campaign.

Vaccination of essential workers

Over the coming days there will be jabs exclusively for municipal workers providing essential services, as long as they are aged 55 or under and have no chronic health conditions.

This new stage will immunise workers from the Home Support Service (SAD) and the Social Emergency and Urgent Care Centre (CUESB), as well as City Police officers and firefighters.

Joint technical office

A new joint technical office has been set up with the Government of Catalonia to monitor the vaccination campaign in the city at a time when the first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived and a new stage of jabs gets under way.