Only the experts from Murcia and Madrid, both autonomous communities led by the PP, defended the withdrawal of this protection measure due to the good evolution of the pandemic
The Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities will meet this friday in person in Galicia within the framework of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS), as confirmed by health sources to Europa Press.
The CISNS Plenary is held in the midst of the debate on the possible withdrawal of the mandatory use of masks on public transportwhich has already been supported by several autonomous communities.
However, the Public Health technicians meeting this Monday in the framework of the Conference on Alerts and Preparedness and Response Plans were mostly in favor of preventively keeping the mask on public transport.
in this conclave only experts from Murcia and Madridboth autonomous communities led by the PP, defended the withdrawal of this measure of protection due to the good evolution of the pandemic, with a seventh wave in which more cases are registered but which develop a milder clinical picture, sources from the Madrid Ministry of Health have explained to Europa Press.
The public health technicians The rest of the Autonomous Communities present at the meeting advocated maintaining the use of the mask and, in this sense, they alluded to prevention against the circulation of viruses that can lead to respiratory infections, including COVID-19, such as the flu.
In any case, the meeting of experts of the Warning Report was closed without any position being set in a technical document to support or decline this decision.
At the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) that took place on the 21st, several regional governments demanded the review of the mandatory use of the mask in public transport, a petition before which the department led by Carolina Darias He promised to take the issue to the Warning Report.
The Madrid’s community has repeatedly demanded that a technical review be carried out “as soon as possible” on the use of masks, “especially in public transport”, to approve your withdrawal. The Minister of Health, for her part, has defended the need to adopt a decision on the subject based on what the experts say.