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The post-Covid plan will be presented to Brussels for approval next month
The Ministry of Health has begun preparing Spain’s new Covid strategy which provides a roadmap out of the sixth wave of the pandemic, presumably with more relaxed measures while always being prepared for the possibility of a new outbreak. The new phase will give the health sector a chance to recover while reality is restored and while caution is the order of the day, the ‘new normality’ will be “nothing like the way we have lived” for the past two months.
Several weeks ago, health professionals suggested that at this stage Covid should be treated more like the flu, whereby care is focused on the most vulnerable rather than the general population. This now appears to be the strategy going forward, after it was proved both in Spain and abroad that the Omicron variant, which is now the dominant coronavirus strain, only mildly effects vaccinated people.
“When this sixth wave passes, it no longer makes sense to have the entire system monitoring each case,” Ministry sources said.
In addition to screening tests, access to vaccines and other drugs that reduce the severity of the disease in case of infection, the strategy suggests that the vulnerable population must maintain the use of the mask both indoors and outdoors (when there is a crowd).
For everyone else, the roadmap proposes that quarantine be scrapped in due course and that masks no longer be mandatory in well-ventilated indoor spaces – the document states that masks will still be needed in certain venues, such as in hospitals.
According to the Alerts Report, vulnerable people will be classed as those over the age of 65, immunosupressed people, those undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy, hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis and solid organ transplants, among others.
The post-Covid strategy also includes health professionals as vulnerable because they work in a “vulnerable environment”.
“Now they are very protected, but as normality is established, we must prevent them from relaxing in those environments,” the report clarified.
Spain’s new strategy will be presented to Brussels for approval next month.
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