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The Public Health Commission of the Ministry of Health will meet next Tuesday, March 1, and the elimination of quarantines for close contacts of Covid positives without a complete guideline appears on its agenda.

This has been confirmed by Health sources to this newspaper, who say, "it is an issue that has been working on for weeks".

In this way and, although as the same sources point out,

"we will have to see what is decided at the meeting", everything seems to indicate that of the seven days of quarantine that they currently have to respect, the close contacts of

unvaccinated positives would disappear by agreement. majority of the autonomies

However, this elimination of quarantines for close contacts would continue to exclude the environments with the most vulnerable people, such as nursing homes, day centers and centers with people with disabilities.

But they do affect schools and, in a special way, students up to 12 years old, where the group of minors who have not yet received the second shot of the vaccine is

.

This change does not modify the situation

of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, who maintain the obligation

to remain isolated for seven days.

On the eighth they can go outside without having to repeat any tests to confirm that they are free of the virus.

regional support

The elimination of that quarantine for close contacts without a complete guideline would have the approval of the autonomous communities.

On this issue,

the Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero,

has spoken this week, assuring that he would defend -in the Public Health Commission- the elimination of these quarantines "keeping them only for the most vulnerable people" .

Along the same lines,

the Minister of Health and Families of the Andalusian Government, Jesús Aguirre,

has declared himself in favor of "only applying quarantines to vulnerable people".

But he has gone further.

He has sent a request to Carolina Darias, Minister of Health, for the establishment of "a de-escalation plan", which includes that schoolchildren can return to class without a mask after next Easter, in which Aguirre hopes that "there will be no no restrictions."

Catalonia has acted in a more decisive way, which this Wednesday, February 23, communicated to its schools the end of the validity of the Covid case management protocol in the classrooms,

which put an end to quarantines and the tracking that was coming making.

In short, the de-escalation of restriction measures is accelerating throughout the world, which is

why the announcement of the elimination of quarantines for close unvaccinated contacts sounds

"obvious" to some experts consulted.

However, the position of the scientific societies of Epidemiology (SEE) and Immunology (SEI), continues to be that of acting with caution.

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