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vaccination rollout has sped up over the past weeks and Spain is due
to receive 13 million doses of Pfizer vaccine next month, Sanchez
told a conference in Madrid.
"We are on track for herd immunity: 33 million compatriots will be
vaccinated by mid-August", he said, using the term for when most of
a population is immune to an infectious disease.
A growing number of people over 60-years-old are now getting their
second shot, with more than 40% already fully inoculated, and
vaccination has also started for those over 50.
At least three regions - Comunidad Valenciana, Castille and Leon,
and Catalonia - have said they would start vaccinating people aged
40-50 by mid-June.
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Spain has reported 79,208 deaths from COVID-19 and more than 3.5
million cases since the beginning of the pandemic. But the number of
cases per 100,000 people over 14 days has fallen to 174, from 523 in
mid-January.
If the trend upholds, masks could stop being mandatory outdoors by
July or August, the leader of the northwestern region of Galicia,
Alberto Nunez Feijoo, said.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Emma Pinedo, Writing by Emma Pinedo;
Editing by Ingrid Melander and Angus MacSwan)
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