She was speaking after the emergency meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, at which regional health authorities and Spain's health ministry assessed the current situation. "They gave us a document in the middle of the meeting that no one had time to read," says García.
For now, there is no agreement as to a common approach, but Spain's health ministry has called another meeting on Wednesday. García adds that all regions, except those which have already mandated the wearing of masks, have shown a reluctance to adopt this measure.
She explains that parents have been recommendations for children returning to school safely and that vaccination - flu and Covid - will now be available without an appointment.
There is an admission that the vaccination campaign for the over-60s hasn't been that successful - only around 40%, which is in fact in line with what take-up was prior to the pandemic. Given this, the vaccination campaign for 2024/2025 will be given greater emphasis and a need for prior appointments is likely to be done away with; people will just be able to walk in, which will be the case from Wednesday this week.
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@Ulla you only need to take your head out of the sand, do a bit of digging in official government data bases and it's all there for you to see in black and white. All over Europe and USA. You won't be giving that information if you get your news from the bought and paid for legacy media. Or your governments who pushed it on everyone.
Big mistake. Face masks are proven to prevent wearers from infection and to slow the spread of virus. It's simply no biggie to wear a mask and there shouldn't be any hesitation. Some community-spirited citizens are already voluntarily wearing masks on the island but the majority of people will wait for masks to be mandated before using them. If at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 people had worn masks the virus would have been contained, its spread severely reduced and people's lives would have been saved. The sloth of Governments to mandate and the resistance of some citizens to mask wearing was the single largest cause of people dying unnecessarily.
James WalkerShow the excess deaths numbers which you claim are through the roof, and which countries, only Mallorca or Spain or .... ?
Finally we have a regional government here that likes to use common sense. You know if it was the far left communist of the PSOE still in power, she would have us lockdown again. The vaccine uptake is poor because it doesn't work and people know it's not safe. Excess deaths are through the roof, but it's the elephant in the room. It's a discussion that needs to be had globally instead of sweeping it under the carpet and still pretending like Pfizer and Moderna did nothing wrong