Spain will stop testing all those suspected of having covid, so it will stop counting each contagionin 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 reached in the Spanish population”, the country can move towards “a different strategy” to focus its efforts “on the most vulnerable people and areas,” the ministry said in a statement.
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A) Yes, diagnostic tests for covid-19 will stop being 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.
In addition, starting Monday, when the new strategy will come into force, “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.
🔴 The indication of carrying out diagnostic tests will focus on:
✔️ People with vulnerability factors: over 60 years old, immunocompromised and pregnant
✔️ Serious cases
✔️ Vulnerable areas: health and socio-health➡️Surveillance will focus on these groups pic.twitter.com/KlW87r92dJ
– Ministry of Health (@sanidadgob) March 22, 2022
In Spain, where 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 of 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 has registered more than 102,000 deaths and 11.3 million infections.
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