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Flu vaccines will be offered at ALL health centres in Spain’s Andalucia from Monday – WITHOUT the need for an appointment

THE Andalucian Health Ministry has announced that flu vaccinations will be available without an appointment at all of its health centres from Monday, January 15. Health minister Catalina Garcia announced the move

12 Jan, 2024 @ 17:30

Andalucia·Health·Lead

How to get yourself protected this winter against flu and Covid-19 in Spain's Costa Blanca

Want to avoid the flu and Covid in Spain? Follow these top 9 tips from health workers

HEALTHCARE services in Spain are under massive strain right now, with a spike in respiratory infections over the Christmas season. Increased socialising thanks to Christmas meals and New Year’s celebrations have meant

8 Jan, 2024 @ 16:37

Health·Lead

Influenza A is spreading across Spain: Respiratory illness is easy to catch and symptoms last for a long time, say experts

CASES of flu continue to spread across Spain and are yet to peak, with the maximum number of illnesses expected to be reached in the third week of January. That’s according to

7 Jan, 2024 @ 13:07

Health·Lead

Big freeze is coming to Spain: Madrid is warned of temperatures as low as -3C

THE Madrid regional government has enacted an extreme cold alert as the capital braces for subzero temperatures through next week. Low temperatures of -2C are expected Saturday night with a high of

6 Jan, 2024 @ 18:32

Lead·Madrid

Feel like everyone has caught a cold this Christmas? Stats from Spain’s Health Ministry suggest you are right

IF YOU are suffering from a cold, the flu or some other respiratory ailment, and feel like everyone around you in Spain is too, you may not be far off the mark.

25 Dec, 2023 @ 16:28

Health·Lead

Where did Covid go in Spain?

WHO could forget how strange our lives became on 14 March 2020, thanks to the new virus with the spike protein? We were told it hailed from the Wuhan wet market in

18 Mar, 2023 @ 14:49

Health·Lead·Other News

Doctors in Spain say a second and deadly pandemic is ‘likely’ and warn the health service ‘is not prepared’

Covid-19 hospitalisations rise 10% over last week in Spain

THE NUMBER of people in Spain hospitalised with Covid-19 has risen by 9.7% in just a week, while the number of such patients in intensive care units (ICUs) has also gone up,

10 Mar, 2023 @ 19:00

Health·National News·Other News

Sales of flu remedies shoot up as Spain hit by major second wave of virus

IF YOU’VE been feeling under the weather these last days, you are not the only one. Spain is currently suffering one of its longest and most widespread flu epidemics in living memory.

7 Mar, 2023 @ 16:19

Health·Lead·National News

Popular medicines used to treat flu, cold under review in Spain over brain disease risks

Hundreds of medicines used to treat colds or flu are under review in Spain due to risk of brain diseases. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) put the medications containing pseudoephedrine under review

28 Feb, 2023 @ 14:15

Health·Lead·National News

Over 21% of 'thirty-somethings' are not vaccinated against COVID-19 in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

What you need to know as Spain’s flu vaccine campaign officially gets underway

THE Health Ministry has officially launched this year’s flu vaccine campaign across Spain, but who is eligible? And how do you get a jab? Firstly it’s important to know that this year,

27 Oct, 2021 @ 09:30

Coronavirus·Health·Lead·National News

COVID-19 boosters and flu vaccine shots will be offered at the same time in some parts of Spain

COVID-19 boosters and flu vaccine shots ‘doubling up’ in parts of Spain

BOOSTER coronavirus vaccine shots can officially be administered to people aged 70 and over from this Monday(October 25). The date was agreed by the Public Health Commission and applies to residents in

25 Oct, 2021 @ 17:19

Health·Lead

Record number of 800,000 flu vaccines administered to elderly, pregnant and vulnerable in one month on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ALMOST 800,000 influenza vaccines have been given by Valencia’s Department of Health in the last month, beating last year’s entire annual total. Only four weeks into the region-wide vaccination campaign, 798,832 doses

7 Nov, 2020 @ 14:15

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia

Elderly urged to take flu vaccine to avoid healthcare system ‘overload’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A region-wide campaign begins on October 5 by appointment only in order to comply with social-distancing regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic

20 Sep, 2020 @ 12:53

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Valencia

Flu epidemic admissions increase by 50% in Spain’s Murcia region, with 700 new cases reported daily.

THIS winter’s epidemic of influenza in the region of Murcia continues to spread, with higher numbers than ever being reported. Regional health authorities admit to around 700 cases a day are now

27 Jan, 2020 @ 12:52

Costa Blanca·Health·Lead

Murcia’s flu epidemic now raging through Spain

HAVING reached epidemic levels in the Murcia region earlier this week, the outbreak of influenza has spread throughout the country. Health ministers in the region now admit that between 400 and 500

18 Jan, 2020 @ 07:19

Costa Blanca·Health·Lead

Flu epidemic in Spain’s Murcia region sees 150 extra medics drafted in to cope with ten-fold increase in cases

EPIDEMIC levels of influenza have been reached in Murcia according to the regional Department for Health. An extra 150 medics are being drafted in to cope with the spike in demand for

14 Jan, 2020 @ 13:44

Costa Blanca·Health·Lead

Flu EPIDEMIC that killed 12 hits Andalucia but peak will be less than previous years

Malaga is below the Andalucian average of 264 cases per 100,000

30 Jan, 2019 @ 11:31

Almeria·Cordoba·Health·Lead·Malaga·Sevilla

Death toll rises to 12 in Spain’s Canary islands as flu outbreak reaches EPIDEMIC levels

Over six out of 10 of those hospitalised with flu in the Canaries are over 64 - the most at risk age category

18 Jan, 2019 @ 17:29

Health·Lead

Flu EPIDEMIC to rock Andalucia next week as illness spreads through Spain

It is moving down through Spain and is already above average in the Balearics, Navarra, Catalunya and Melilla

11 Jan, 2019 @ 14:57

Health·Lead

Flu pandemic in Spain leads to rising death toll

THE number of people in Spain who have died from the flu has risen dramatically. In what is proving to be the deadliest season of the last decade, some 472 deaths have

25 Feb, 2018 @ 10:30

Health·Lead·National News

Hundreds of extra staff called in to battle flu epidemic in southern Spain

ALMOST 500 extra staff have been call in to tackle this year’s flu epidemic in southern Spain. The last week of 2017 saw more than 188 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Andalucia,

9 Jan, 2018 @ 17:09

Health·Lead

Flu outbreak in Malaga arrives earlier than expected

Experts believe the numbers infected will increase

30 Dec, 2016 @ 12:30

Health·Lead·Malaga

Number of flu sufferers is dropping

Only 304 Malaga residents contracted flu in January

8 Mar, 2016 @ 08:45

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