The Spanish Government reflects on the medium-term evolve its device, without systematic testing, tracing and isolation, to treat SARS-COV-2 more as a disease.
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Is it time to end the current pandemic monitoring system, which relies on systematic tests, tracing and isolation of cases, including asymptomatic? In Spain, despite the virulence of the new wave caused by the Omicron Variant, the debate was launched by the head of the government itself. Monday, January 10th, Questioned on Radio Cadena Ser , Socialist Pedro Sanchez confirmed that the government “works for months” on the need to “respond with new instruments” to “the evolution of Cvid-19, the pandemic we have have known towards an endemic disease “.
The same morning, The daily El Pais had revealed that the Spanish health authorities – the center of Coordination of health alerts and emergencies, the Office of Alerts and the National Epidemiology Center – prepare a new epidemic monitoring model aimed at treating CVIV-19 as an acute respiratory disease, by applying a method similar to the one used for the follow-up of the flu. It would be necessary not to count the cases or to make tests to the slightest symptom, but to move to a system of “sentinels”, based on a sample of doctors, health centers and hospitals responsible for providing Extrapolable statistical data across the country, so as to track the expansion of the disease.
“Promote this debate with European partners”
“This is a debate that we are trying to open at European level, Sanchez said, stressing that the Spanish Minister of Health, Carolina Darias spoke with many of his European counterparts. Science gave us answers to protect us and we see that the [CIVID-19] lethality rate is no longer what it was (…). Therefore, we bring together the conditions for that, with care, little We can open this debate, at a technical level, with health professionals, but also at European level, so that we begin to follow with different parameters the evolution of this disease. “
No date is officially envisaged, in particular because Spain must meet its international case notification commitments – the European Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization requests States to discounter exhaustively positive cases. However, Wednesday, January 12, Carolina Darias said the government will begin to assess adaptation to a new CVIV-19 monitoring and control system once the current wave “.
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