Spain's Public Health Commission agreed on Monday to send up to 45,000 vaccine doses to Ceuta after emergency talks between the Health Ministry and regional governments, with 15,000 measles-mumps-rubella jabs alongside 10,000 each for diphtheria-tetanus, varicella and polio distributed via a solidarity mechanism.
The shipment failed to quell a political dispute over confinement. Opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo renewed calls for a lockdown of migrants carrying contagious diseases in the enclave, a demand Health Minister Mónica García dismissed as unjustified and counterproductive. Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the minister of summoning autonomous governments in a blackmailing manner, while government spokesperson Elma Saiz said the opposition was provoking anguish and fear in Ceuta.
State Secretary Javier Padilla visited Ceuta to assess primary care and hospital operations, and García is scheduled to appear before Congress on Thursday to address the crisis. Epidemiologists have largely rejected a generalized lockdown as disproportionate.