Vaccine against COVID: Who is recommended for?

Changes in Covid-19 vaccination and this year’s flu

This season 2025-2026, the vaccination campaign It will be different from the last years after the 2020 pandemic.

On this occasion, the health authorities have written two different documents with different recommendations for the flu vaccine and in front of COVID-19.

The Public Health Commissionof which the Ministry of Health and the Health Councils of the communities are part, has decided to change the criteria and Diana groups that can be inoculated by these doses.

And these modifications, explain sources from the Ministry of Health to 65 and morethey would have been carried out due “To the drastic reduction of cases and deaths from COVID-19”.

Recommended groups

Thus, according to health authorities in a documentin the case of COVID-19, the following groups are proposed to inoculate the dose in front of the coronavirus:

• 70 or over people – Before it was greater than 60.
• People with special vulnerability due to Immunosuppression
• Internal people in Disability centers, residences of elders and residents in closed institutions.
• People from 12 years of age belonging to Risk groups or with severe immunosuppression:

– Diabetes mellitus.

– Morbid obesity.

– Cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory chronic diseases.

– Chronic renal disease in stages 3, 4 and 5.

– Nephrotic syndrome; Hemoglobinopathies and anemias.

– Hemophilia, other coagulation disorders and chronic hemorrhagic disorders, as well as receptors of hemoderivated and multiple transfusions.

– Asplenia or severe splenic dysfunction.

– Malignant cancer and hemopathies.

– Chronic liver disease; serious neuromuscular diseases.

– Disorders and diseases that lead to cognitive dysfunction.

• All pregnant women in any gestation quarter.
• People with 6 or more age with conditions associated with a significant increase in risk of serious illness.
• Staff of public and private health and socio -sanitary establishments.

Exceptions

It should be noted that these criteria can change in certain regions, so it is advisable to confirm that the community will follow these criteria. For example, in Catalonia the dose in front of Covid It is still recommended for over 60 years.