Jennifer Mendoza
Research expert covering health, pharma and medtech
COVID-19 vaccination in Spain - statistics & facts
Spain’s COVID-19 immunization campaign was launched on December 27, 2020, days after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) authorized a vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer. As of March 2021, three other vaccines (Moderna, AztraZeneca/Oxford University, Janssen) had already been approved for use in the European Union. In Spain, the first doses were distributed among some of the most vulnerable groups, including residents and personnel working in retirement homes, front-line healthcare workers, highly dependent people, and seniors aged 80 and older. By May 2023, the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered in the country had surpassed 105 million.
