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Several communities in Spain support reducing isolation to five days
More than a month after the first Omicron case was discovered outside of South Africa, virologists have determined that, while the new variant is far more transmissible than its predecessors, it appears to be causing much less serious symptoms. While infection rates in Spain are up overall, hospital and ICU admissions have remained tentatively below crisis level, something which the experts attribute to the high uptake of vaccinations in this country.
For this reason, Spain is taking the lead from nations such as Italy and the US and plans to debate a reduction in quarantine time for those who have tested positive for Covid at a meeting scheduled for Wednesday December 29.
Ahead of the Interterritorial Health Council conference, Madrid has suggested that shortening the quarantine is “reasonable” while Andalucía believes that the option should be closely studied.
For its part, the United States has reduced the isolation period from 10 to five days for asymptomatic patients given that research shows that the most infectious period is at the onset of the disease, while Italy and Greece are anxious to avoid the economic impact and are studying a reduction for those who have mild symptoms or have received a booster vaccine.
Spain’s Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has not revealed if she is in favour of shortening isolation time for asymptomatic patients, but the decision will ultimately be made by the Public Health Commission. Just last week, these experts overturned a decision made three weeks earlier and decreed that fully vaccinated close contacts of Omicron patients would no longer be forced to quarantine.
Also up for debate at tomorrow’s meeting is the capacity allowance at football basketball stadiums, which is currently at 100% outdoors and 80% in closed spaces. Masks are compulsory and eating, drinking and smoking are all still prohibited at games.
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