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The government of the Community of Madrid, together with the administration of Castilla-La Mancha, has reopened in recent days the debate on reducing the mandatory isolation days due to Covid-19, raising the possibility that
they be lowered from seven to three, four or five days
, while other regional executives, such as the Balearic Islands, Extremadura or Castilla y León, have appealed to "prudence" and ask to pay attention to what the experts say in this regard.
It was on December 29 when the Public Health Commission, in which the autonomous communities and the Ministry of Health are represented,
unanimously agreed to reduce the quarantine of all asymptomatic positives
for Covid-19 to seven days, compared to ten. that were previously set.
In this context, the Community of Madrid, in the mouth of its Minister of the Presidency,
Enrique López
, has been in favor this Monday of adapting and reducing the quarantine of those infected by Covid based on the severity of the variants and being currently in
"scenarios very different from past times".
To questions about the reduction of quarantines to four or five days, López pointed out that the medical authorities consider it that way and it happens in other European countries.
"You have to adapt depending on the gravity and now you are in very different scenarios to past times"
, she has reviewed.
Prudence
On the other side are communities such as the Balearic Islands or Extremadura, among others, which again appeal to prudence.
Thus, the Minister of Health and Consumption of the Balearic Executive has called for caution because, as she has said, "for now, despite the fact that quarantines have been reduced to seven days, what is known about the disease
is that the period The peak of infection is reached around the fifth or sixth day".
For his part, the second vice president and Minister of Health and Social Services of the Junta de Extremadura, José María Vergeles, has considered that maintaining seven days of quarantine after contracting Covid-19
"is fine".
In addition, sources from the Autonomous Governments of La Rioja and Murcia ask to pay attention to the decisions that are taken, in a consensual manner, in the competent forums such as the Public Health Report, the Public Health Commission and the Interterritorial Council of the System National Health.
In the case of Castilla y León, sources from the Ministry point out to Europa Press that,
"as a precautionary principle"
, they consider that it is not convenient to shorten the time of isolation and quarantine, at least while there are high incidences such as those currently give.
In addition, from the Board they point out that, when it was reduced from ten to seven days, the Ministry of Health was asked to
"coordinate" a study of the transmissibility of 'ómicron'
in order to make these decisions with the appropriate evidence, something that According to sources from the Ministry, there has been no news yet.
Antigen test
Sales of self-diagnostic antigen tests for Covid-19 have fallen in the Community of Madrid for the first time after several weeks of increase, which also falls from the first position in the national
ranking
as the region with the highest sales.
Specifically, Madrid pharmacies sold
a total of 1,371,428 antigen tests
for the detection of Covid-19 in the week from January 10 to 16, according to data from the IQVIA consultancy.
In this way,
a decrease of 10.53% is registered with respect to the previous week
-in the week of January 3 to 9- when 1,532,909 units were sold.
At the national level, sales of self-diagnostic antigen tests grew slightly again (+3.6% compared to the previous week)
to reach 8,115,310 units sold.
Non-prescription sales officially began in Spain on July 21, after being published in the Official State Gazette and approved the day before by the Council of Ministers.
Prior to this date it was possible to acquire them with a medical prescription
, so their availability was very limited.
Andalusia is the autonomous community that leads the acquisition of this type of diagnostic tests against COVID-19,
with 1,537,093 in the week of January 10 to 16, 2022.
In that week it was followed by Catalonia
(1,533,372
), Madrid
(1,371,428)
, the Valencian Community
(978,299
), Galicia (
402,794
), the Basque Country (
325,295
), the Canary Islands
(323,172
), Castilla y León (
299,836
), Aragon
( 236,481
), Castile-La Mancha (
230,046
), Murcia
(220,689
), Asturias (
192,292
), Balearic Islands (
174,487
), Extremadura
(125,063
), Cantabria (
89,952
), Navarra (
51,383
) and La Rioja (
23,618
).
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