Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the country’s coronavirus vaccination plan on will be approved tomorrow, Tuesday.

Sánchez added that "a very substantial part of the Spanish population could be vaccinated with all guarantees during the first quarter of 2021." 

Sánchez also said that "Spain, along with Germany, would be the first European Union country to have a complete vaccination plan."

The Socialist Party (PSOE) leader underlined that his government "has been working on this plan since September. We are ready." 

The European Union has already signed contracts with pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Sanofi/GSK, Janssen and BioNTech/Pfizer for a total of one billion doses of coronavirus vaccine.  Sánchez said that the signing of a contract with the CureVac company is "imminent" and that negotiations with Moderna and Novavax are very advanced for a total of an additional 400 million doses. The Spanish state is to be allocated 10% of the contracted doses, and work is going on to ensure they are "available as soon as possible," Sánchez explained.