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The Covid crisis has turned into reality events that until very recently were unimaginable.

The virus is still not controlled despite the miraculous progress that vaccination represents.

Everyone is now trying to learn from the tragic mistake of not having calibrated the global impact of the coronavirus in time, after its discovery in the

Wuhan

region

(China)

.

The

WHO

warns that "another pandemic could happen at any time."

And in the

Department of National Security

of the

Presidency of the Government they

point to epidemics as the greatest danger during the period 2021-2023.

Although there is scientific consensus on the animal origin of the coronavirus, the 2020 National Security report maintains that this crisis has found that the appearance of “emerging pathogens” and their global distribution is “more than ever a threat to public health and safety. international ", which grows exponentially in the face of" possible malicious use "by" non-state agents ".

Therefore, they raise the need to have an inventory of high-risk biological agents and toxins and the facilities where they are managed and cultivated, to ensure their custody and protection of the facilities.

To this end, the first steps have been taken and a working group has been set up, within

the Specialized Committee for the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

, led by the

Ministry of Health

and in which the

Carlos III Health Institute

participates.

; the

Ministry of Science and Innovation

; that of

Agriculture

;

Interior

;

Defense

and

Finance

. They have already prepared a proposal for a list of pathogens and toxins that should be controlled, as well as the Spanish laboratories that handle this type of agents. The next move will be to create a

National Biosecurity Commission.

The report also emphasizes that the level of security for goods passing through European territory must be increased, since some criminal organizations, it points out, benefit from free movement in the EU. Technological and biological development and globalization favor the exchange of biological weapons and that increases the risk both that they may fall into the hands of terrorist organizations and that they may accidentally be exposed, says this official text.

Another of the great reflections made in this report affects the vulnerability of cyberspace, a risk that has increased with the pandemic due to the proliferation of the use of the digital environment. This space is already a flank of attacks on the country's security, directed both at the Administration, companies in strategic sectors and the intellectual and industrial property of public and private companies. In many cases they come from other countries. The forecast, they emphasize, is that they "continue to grow."

In 2020, the disinformation and propaganda campaigns, in the Spanish language, promoted from "some states" "have increased."

National Security raises the convenience of renewing the communications system for classified information between the different ministries.

And to also improve the protection of data on Defense held by companies to safeguard national and international contracts, projects and programs and the identification of the people who have access to it.

There are currently 500 classified contracts in force in the department headed by Margarita Robles.

Of these, 34% are confidential, 64% reserved and 1% secret.

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