The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has announced that next Tuesday, February 8, the Government will eliminate the mandatory use of masks outdoors after this matter was debated on Monday within the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System ( Swans). The head of Health has indicated that the idea is that it be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on Wednesday and that it can be effective on Thursday.
“I confirm that next Tuesday we will take the Royal Decree to the Council of Ministers by virtue of which we will eliminate the mandatory use of masks abroad,” said the minister in an interview on Cadena Ser.
The minister has indicated that they will convene a CISNS to discuss the decision before it is brought to the Council of Ministers, while she has defended that this measure has been useful and has acted as a “barrier effect” because it was approved ahead of Christmas, that imply “greater social interaction”.
Darias has emphasized that it has been a “prudent measure for the time strictly necessary until the indicators advise a different measure.” In this sense, he has pointed out that the indicators “are improving” and “especially” the one that speaks of the level of circulation of the virus. This, according to the minister, “has decreased by 30% in recent weeks since the decline began.”
Asked about why they forced the validation of the masks in the decree in which the pensions were to be eliminated days later, they explained that “the validation is a constitutional provision.” “In the month of December a series of agreements were adopted, one of them the return of the masks in the face of exponential growth and the uncertainty of this variant”, she has slipped.
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the head of Health has indicated that they are about to finish the contractual part and hope that “in a short time” the purchase can be signed and these antivirals available.
In addition, Darias has indicated that this Friday they will announce “by virtue of which they are going to acquire a medicine that adds to these medicines against the fight against the coronavirus.” He has explained that it will be indicated for those “immunocompromised people and that the doses that are inoculated do not reach that level of antibody protection.”
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