Thursday, March 28

Restrictions due to covid: The Interterritorial Health debate today on the end of indoor masks


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Regions such as Extremadura prefer to follow the criteria of the experts, who oppose the end of this protection at Easter, as the Government plans

New meeting in which the end of the obligation to get masks indoors will be discussed. The Interterritorial Council of the National Health System is held this Wednesday in an extraordinary session and in person. After that, at 6:30 p.m., the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, will report on the issues discussed from the Palacio de Fuensalida. If the Government finally decides to bring forward the elimination of the compulsory nature of interiors before Easter, it will not be with the endorsement of the specialists.

The Interterritorial must address the end of this element of protection, despite the fact that this issue is not on the agenda, and the positions between the communities are opposed. Madrid and Catalonia lead those who want to suppress this element of protection, but their opinion collides with another group, led by the Basque Country and Andalusia.

The Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, sets a period of “month and a half” to remove the masks, once events such as the April Fair or Holy Week have concluded, with a great capacity to increase the number of infections. In the case of Extremadura, the councilor José María Vergeles also aligns with this position, that is, with what was announced by the Alerts Conference and the technicians: wait to remove the mask indoors. The Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities have a document on the table in which the experts from the Alerts Conference disagree with the plans of the Carolina Darias department, which wanted parties without a mask, and propose to eliminate this element of protection after the Easter Sunday.

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first in schools

The text prepared by the Health technicians and the communities advocates a progressive de-escalation in this restriction, which would begin in schools and that for the moment, would have the exception of hospitals, nursing homes and public transport, where it would continue to be mandatory.

In addition, the experts from the Alerts Conference recommend a “responsible use” of the mask in the vulnerable population, when a safety distance of one and a half meters cannot be kept and in places where there is no good ventilation, such as shopping centers. , supermarkets, shops, cinemas, museums or bars. They also advise that they be used in workplaces if there is no possibility of air circulation and if there is not enough space between employees.

The content of the document was expected to be debated at the beginning of the week by the Public Health Commission, in which representatives of the Ministry of Health and the autonomies participate, but it was not even taken into consideration. Everything is open for today’s Interterritorial Health Council, which meets in Toledo, although in any case, the Government will have the last word.

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And in the event that the Executive wants to end the obligation before Easter, the calendar is pressing, because the decision must be made in the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, since this regulation is regulated by a royal decree.

Holy Tuesday

Although President Pedro Sánchez and Minister Darias have insisted that they would remove the mask indoors only when they had the endorsement of scientists, the Ministry of Health planned to remove the masks on April 12, Holy Tuesday, once they had been met. two weeks after the start of the ‘flu’ of covid-19.

The director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón, sent an email to the communities last week in which he raised that date. The majority response was that it was too early, given that Spain maintains a cumulative incidence among those over 60 years of age (the only data available after the new surveillance phase began) above 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days. .


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