• Infectious What is the future of Covid

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has asked for "prudence" and

recommended the use of the mask in the face of the increase in Covid cases in Spain

and has also called for a booster dose to be given to those who have not yet received it. have, while waiting to find out what the Vaccine Committee determines about the fourth dose and "when" it should be inoculated.

Darias has made these statements after the visit she has made to the Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital in Santander, accompanied by the president of the autonomy, Miguel Ángel Revilla.

The recommendation on the use of the mask again indoors made by Darias,

joins that of autonomies such as Catalonia

, whose Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimon, has expressed concern about the increase in cases and the increase in patients admitted to hospital. ICU due to Covid, which have gone from 26 to 46 in three weeks, as well as due to the rise in hospitalizations.

The

Community of Madrid

, through the vice president of the regional government, Enrique Ossorio, has also recalled that

"the recommendation to use masks by vulnerable people, those with immunosuppression or pregnant women is maintained", but not only for them.

The recommendation is extended to all people who are in closed spaces for public use or who attend large events.

And it is that the epidemiological data from Madrid show a cumulative incidence at 14 days of

1,500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

in people over 60 years of age (the only age group that is reported after the change in the surveillance model).

Other regions, such as

Extremadura, for now, are not going to change the current criteria

.

This has been stated by its second vice president and Minister of Health, José María Vergeles, who, in statements collected by

Europa Press

, has indicated that the decision adopted by other communities seems "correct" to him, but that, in his case, they are not recommended changes compared to what is being done now.

Regarding the situation in Extremadura,

the counselor explained that about 90% of those infected are due to the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants

, which are more contagious but, according to the first epidemiological studies, do not carry "more seriousness" .

In this sense, Vergeles has anticipated that this Friday a "certain flattening" of the curve could be observed, to which he has added that it will be seen in the coming days how it behaves.

In addition, he has insisted that,

when there is a high incidence, it happens that ICU admissions and admissions grow, although, compared to the previous week, the deaths are fewer

.

Fourth dose to majors

Regarding the fourth dose of vaccine for people over 80 years of age and vulnerable people, Darias has insisted that they are

waiting for what the Vaccine Conference determines and "when" it

should be inoculated.

He pointed out that the Report meets periodically to analyze the situation, and will continue to do so, and that the Ministry will be open to its new proposals to know when to proceed with the vaccination of these people "or any other decision that it may adopt."

In addition, he added that it will be the Conference that assesses and weighs the possibility of the arrival of vaccines adapted to variants, in this case to omicron, "as many countries are doing".

"The Ministry is going to continue hand in hand with the advice of experts, who have brought us to be the reference country in world vaccination, with

a vaccination strategy that has been exemplary

and that all countries look at us and ask us how has it been capable to date of having inoculated 95 million doses and having

92.7% of the population over 12 years of age with a full regimen?

We are talking about absolutely important, spectacular figures, and with more than 50% of people with a booster dose", said the minister.

According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, based on data from December 27, 2020, the day vaccinations began, and this June 30, 92.7% of the Spanish population (39,106,675 people) already have received the complete vaccination schedule against Covid-19 and 93% one dose (39,242,986 people).

The document also indicates that 95,153,557 doses of Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines have been administered in Spain.

By age groups vaccinated with the complete schedule, those over 12 years of age represent 92.7%;

from 12 to 19 years old, 95.7%;

from 20 to 29 years old, 84.6%;

from 30 to 39 years old, 85.2%;

while those over 40 years old account for 95.4%.

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