The Interterritorial Council held this Wednesday has decided that reduce quarantine for people infected with COVID, even if they are asymptomatic. This has been announced, after the meeting held with the health services of the regional governments.
The Report on Alerts and Preparedness and Response Plans, a body under the Public Health Commission, had sent the closed proposal for debate in the Council. Lowering the quarantine of positives was put on the table. The question was whether to reduce to five days as in the United States or leave it at 7 as in the United Kingdom and France. Seven of the 17 communities were in favor of change, although not in the days. In the end it has been decided that quarantine is reduced to seven days.
Quarantine of unvaccinated people who are in close contact reduced
In addition, Health has decided to rEducate also the quarantine of the unvaccinated that are close contact of a positive to a week.
🔴 LAST MINUTE➡️ The Public Health Commission unanimously agrees to modify the isolation period for people with positive notification of Active Infection Diagnostic Tests # COVID19
✔️ They must make an isolation of 7 days compared to the current 10 days pic.twitter.com/8SXXIUrLzh
– Ministry of Health (@sanidadgob) December 29, 2021
In the morning, Pedro Sánchez, on his balance sheet for 2021, already explained that three things had to prevail: “We think we have to balancing public health, mental health, and economic growth. Those three areas of response are where the Government operates. “
What the CCAES report does include is stop monitoring COVID-positive cases with very mild symptoms and close contacts of those infected, which ends the crawls.
In addition, Health and the autonomous communities have decided reduce the capacity of sports venues 75% outdoors and 50% indoors. In football, 100% of the capacity was allowed to date, while in other sports such as basketball it was 80%. There have been several LaLiga clubs that have reported new positives for COVID-19 in the last hours. Football Club Barcelona, Valencia, Real Madrid or Rayo Vallecano are just some of them.
As for sports venues, the use of a mask will be mandatory and it will be forbidden to smoke and consume food in the localities, while the consumption of water may be allowed. Entry and exit to basketball stadiums or pavilions will be staggered.
Increase in infections and accumulated incidence
This meeting of the Interterritorial Council and these measures are the cause of the unbridled increase in COVID infections that is occurring in Spain, where They have been breaking records of daily infections and cumulative incidence for days, an indicator in which 1,300 infections are already exceeded per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days.
In this way, Spain comfortably doubles the cumulative incidence limit to consider that the situation is very high risk. However, hospital pressure is lower than in other waves, with 18.71% of beds in ICUs (Intensive Care Units) occupied by COVID patients.
With respect to vaccination dataIn Spain, 90% of the target population has the complete vaccination schedule. More than thirteen million booster doses have been administered, while 24.6% of the child population has the first dose of the vaccine.
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