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AstraZeneca's covid-19 vaccine should only be given to people between the ages of 18 and 64 due to lack of data on its efficacy in older adults, as recommended by the German vaccination committee in a draft of the strategy update. German vaccination cited by Reuters. Tomorrow the European Medicines Agency will announce its decision on the use of the vaccine that the pharmaceutical company has developed together with the University of Oxford. "Currently there are insufficient data to evaluate the efficacy of the vaccine from 65 years of age," explained the German committee in a resolution made public by the German Ministry of Health this Thursday. "The AstraZeneca vaccine, unlike mRNA vaccines, should only be offered to people between the ages of 18 and 64," the statement continued. In the commercial war open for vaccines, the United Kingdom has assured that it expects to receive the doses purchased from the pharmaceutical AstraZeneca, while the EU presses for the company to comply with the agreed delivery schedule, and asks the pharmaceutical company to redirect towards the EU part of the doses manufactured in the UK. In Spain, the Valencian Community, which has the highest cumulative incidence of covid-19 (1,459 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks), has ordered the immediate transfer of those who died from coronavirus from hospitals to prevent infections in the centers sanitary. This afternoon, the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities plan to agree in the Interterritorial Health Council the application of "preventive and corrective measures" for those who skip the vaccination order, according to a draft that EL PAÍS has had access to. According to the latest CIS poll, the number of people opposed to being vaccinated in Spain drops to 16.5%, when in November 47% rejected immunization. Portugal will vote this afternoon for a new state of emergency that provides for the closure of borders against the uncontrolled spread of the virus in the country, which has left maximum numbers of deaths and infections in recent days.
