Spain will only test people at risk in a new “strategy” against the coronavirus

Spain will stop testing all those suspected of having covid, so it will stop counting each contagion, in a step towards considering the coronavirus as an endemic disease, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.

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Thanks to “the high levels of immunity achieved in the Spanish population”, the country can move towards “a different strategy” that focuses its efforts “on the people and areas of greatest vulnerability”, the ministry said in a statement.

Thus, the diagnostic tests for covid-19 will no longer be carried out in all suspicious cases, to privilege “people with vulnerability factors (over 60 years of age, immunosuppressed and pregnant)”, health personnel and “serious cases”, he pointed out.

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In addition, starting Monday, when the new strategy will come into effect, “confirmed mild and asymptomatic cases will not go into isolation” and people who have had contact with infected people will not have to quarantine, he added.

This strategy could be reversed if there is “a significant change in the trend that indicates an uncontrolled circulation” of the coronavirus, indicated the Ministry of Health, which since last week stopped publishing updated covid data daily to do so twice a week. week.

On Spainwhere more than 92% of the population over the age of twelve has received the complete vaccination schedule and 51% of its 47 million inhabitants have even received a booster dose, the government had announced weeks ago that it would move towards managing the coronavirus as an endemic disease with which to live normally.

The president of the government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, stated at the beginning of March that “very soon” the mask will no longer be mandatory indoors, since the country is looking at a “horizon (…) of overcoming the pandemic” .

Since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago, Spain It has registered more than 102,000 deaths and 11.3 million infections.

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Source: Elcomercio

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