The elimination of quarantines for all close contacts of those infected by Covid-19 arrives this Tuesday at the meeting of the Public Health Commission, which, like the Interterritorial Council, resumes its meetings this week to study the management of the pandemic.
After a week without a meeting call and with the public debate on the elimination of quarantines open for weeks, the Ministry of Health and the health technicians of the communities will study the definitive removal of all isolatesafter what those established for vaccinated people were eliminated months ago -who were asked to limit their activity for ten days-.
With the sixth wave in decline -although without updated data since last Friday due to technical problems- and a vaccination rate throughout the country that exceeds 92% among those over 12 years of age, Catalonia has already gone ahead of the Commission and last Wednesday it abolished school quarantines.
In addition, it stopped counting the infections that occur in schools, with the exception of special education centers.
Removal of close contact quarantines It will mainly affect children between the ages of 6 and 11.since only 57.4% of them have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, and only 18% have the full schedule.
According to the agenda of the meeting, to which EFE has had access, Health and communities will also addressn the vaccination strategy with the drug Evusheld.
A drug that the Public Health Commission on February 8 agreed to allocate to people over 18 years of age with severe immunosuppression who do not respond to vaccination and to those who have it contraindicated and who, in addition, have a very high risk of serious illness after vaccination. SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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