In Catalan pharmacies there are leftover stock of antigen tests for the flu and covid-19 self-detection, as confirmed this Friday to EL PERIÓDICO by sources from the Col.legi de Farmacèutics de Barcelona (COFB). Although some pharmacies may occasionally be short of them, they can be found in most pharmacies. School sources assure that Fedefarma, the main distributor in Catalonia, has availability of test.
The sales of antigen tests in pharmacies not only in Catalonia, but throughout Spain, have skyrocketed in recent weeks. According to the health consultancy Iqvia, between December 18 and 25, the the million units sold throughout the State, a figure that triple what was sold in the first week of December. The sales trend is similar in all autonomous communities.
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Besides, Catalonia will face, starting Monday, your most complicated week because of the pressure in their Emergency services of the respiratory virusesespecially of the flu. According to the forecast of the Computational Biology and Complex Systems Group (Biocomsc), of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the situation will begin to “improve” in the middle of next week, although until then the pressure of care (visits to the emergency room and admissions to hospital wards and ICUs) will continue. going up.
Catalonia announced this Friday that the mask will be mandatory in all hospitals, primary care and social health centers in the territory, and shortly after Ministry of Health has reported that next Monday it will propose this measure (also decreed by the Valencian Community and Murcia) to all the autonomous communities.