Think this might be a long one.
I've applied for my jab out here but told my registration numbers don't register. but they will call me to sort it out.
All in Spanish so when they called i never had a clue as i speak only a little Spanish (spoke more before i moved here).
Called the British Embassy as they were asking foreign nationals to call if problems getting the jab and as i always used to pay private when ill, they told me to call the surgery i used and they should be able to help.
On the local Canaries paper, they said they realized that lots of people were not registered with an NHS doctor and private instead so go to your private doctors to ask for help.
This was my reply from my doctor's private surgery.
Have you used the app? I showed them i have, their response "well go back to England and get it done there, if not wait until the end of the year once all the Canarians are done and get it done at the Pharmacy, just keep wearing your mask.
At the same time, a neighbor has just gone to her Scandie clinic. (no residencia, just a NIF (NIF basically is just you saying you are here)). Anyway, she got her injection 1 week later.
My old doctors in England have called me up 3 times for my jab.
I've told them via phone and email i live abroad now and to give my jab to someone else (in fact i told them about 16 years ago when i moved out here).
Looks like from the 15th of July we can have UK tourists and believe me we need you all.
So what do i do?
Wait for Gran Canaria to sort itself out vaccine-wise or fly back to the UK.
If i fly back to the UK, i have to quarantine for 10 days on arrival. Get my first jab and then wait for my second before coming back here. I could be gone for approx 8 weeks, likely more.
1 my jabs should go to someone still living in the UK
2 i should get sorted here, not be told "go back to England and get it done there"
So effin confused, want and need all you tourists back here. Tenerife has high levels of Covid Virus and back on level 3, but ALL the other islands are safe.
158 of the 195
new cases are Tenerife.
In Gran Canaria it was 14 days, 39.92 per 100,000 inhabitants, 7 days 18.72 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the south of Gran Canaria where i live (Puerto Rico) we have zero cases and have had zero for about 8 months now. Most of the cases on the island are in Las Palmas
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