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WATCH: The whole of Spain bursts into applause in gratitude to coronavirus health workers

Across Spain, people went to their windows to give a round of applause in gratitude to the work being carried out by Spain's health workers on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis.

Published: 14 March 2020 22:20 CET
WATCH: The whole of Spain bursts into applause in gratitude to coronavirus health workers
Photo: Deirdre Carney/The Local

Across Spain, people went to their windows to give a round of applause in gratitude to the work being carried out by Spain's health workers on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis. 

The spontaneous act of gratitude came at 10pm, just minutes after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivered a televised address to the nation informing them that everyone would be confined to their homes except to make short trips to buy supplies.

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Families came out on to balconies, others reached out of windows to cheer and clap amid shouts of “Viva los medicos” – Long Live Doctors!.

Here's just a few of those moments captured and shared across social media using #AplausoSanitario.

This video was captured by Deirdre Carney in the heart of Madrid's Malasaña:

 

And this one from Pamplona:

 

And this one from Murcia: 

 

 

In Barcelona:

 

 

 

 

 

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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