Vaccine against the flu: Who is recommended for?

Vaccination against COVID-19: Who is the dose recommended this season 2025-2026?

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

The 2025-2026 vaccination campaign starts with novelties this fall.

Specifically, 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 may be inoculated by the doses of the flu and the COVID-19.

On this occasion, two technical documents have been published, one for each virus – before, from the pandemic, it was done in it -, detailing who is recommended to immunize with each vaccine.

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

In this way, in terms of the dose in front of the flu, according to the Document published by the Health Authoritiesthe recommended groups are as follows:

• People 60 or over.
• Child population between 6 and 59 months of age.
• People from 5 years and up to 59 years of age with the following Risk conditions:

– Internal in disability centers, residences of older and closed institutions.

– Diabetes mellitus and Cushing Syndrome; morbid obesity.

– Cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory chronic diseases, including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis and asthma.

– Chronic renal disease and nephrotic syndrome.

– Hemoglobinopathies and anemias or hemophilia, other coagulation disorders and chronic hemorrhagic disorders, as well as hemedivated receptors and multiple transfusions.

– Asplenia or severe splenic dysfunction; Chronic liver disease, including alcoholism; serious neuromuscular diseases.

– Immunosuppression.

– Malignant cancer and hemopathies.

– Chronic inflammatory disease.

– Disorders and diseases that lead to cognitive dysfunction.

– Celiac disease.

– Cephalorrachid fluid fistula, cochlear implant or waiting for it.

• Smoking people.
• All pregnant women in any quarter of gestation and women during the puerperium.
• People of 5-18 years old that receive prolonged treatment with acetylsalicylic acid, due to the possibility of developing a Reye Syndrome after the flu.
• Staff of Health and public and private health and socio -health centers.
• People who work in essential public services, with special emphasis on the following subgroups: State Security Forces and Bodies, with national, regional or local dependence; Armed forces; firefighters; and civil protection services.
• People who provide home and cohabiting care with patients collected in the previous section.
• Personal and Practices in practices In health and socio -health centers, public and private, minor centers, both primary and hospitable care, as well as pharmacy office staff.
• Staff of Nursery and centers of Early Childhood Education (Until 6 years).
• People with direct occupational exposure to animals or your secretions in farms or farms.