Spanish supermarkets, department stores and other food and distribution companies have offered to help overloaded health authorities with coronavirus vaccinations, even as bars reopened in some regions amid slowing infections, Reuters reports.

Five major retail associations said in a letter to health authorities that their members — many of which already carry out annual inoculations of staff — could administer Covid-19 jabs to their workers to ease pressure on the health service.

The companies, including El Corte Ingles, Carrefour and IKEA, said they could operate in strict compliance with the national vaccination strategy.

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