Pedro Sánchez announces a change in strategy to evaluate covid as a flu

The president assures that the Government will control the price of antigen tests

The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, has advanced this Monday that Spain is considering change the strategy to follow the covid pandemic assessment. “I believe that we have the conditions so that, with caution and little by little, we begin to evaluate the evolution of this disease with different parameters (similar to those used in influenza) “, He has declared in an interview with Cadena Ser. He added that he has been working for weeks and from a technical point of view in un plan for the ‘flu’ of the virus.

To reinforce his argument, Sánchez added: “I think we have to evaluate the evolution of the covid towards a endemic disease “. The president has ventured that “in this month of January the peak of this sixth wave will arrive. It is a new, more contagious, but milder variant. In these coming weeks it will be the peak.”

Sánchez has also advanced that the Government plans control the prices of antigen tests and that It will also buy 344,000 doses of antivirals from Pfizer in January. Thus, he has indicated that his team is going to “mess with price control” and that they are going to do something to regulate it.

Back to school safely

He also assured this Monday that the back to classrooms is “safe” for the more than eight million schoolchildren who return this Monday after the Christmas holidays and with the incidence of cases soaring. “We have been working with the autonomous communities, the health commission, the presentation of alerts, ministries and ministries, therefore, the conditions are safe,” said Sánchez. The chief executive has also shown his confidence in the vaccination of minors between 5 and 12 years old, which began on December 15.

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In this sense, it has confirmed the goal of reaching 70% of those vaccinated with the first dose on February 7 and with the full two-dose schedule the week of April 8. “You have to have confidence in technical work and regional governments and in a vaccination that is widely supported by children,” said Sánchez.

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