The Spanish government today decided to reduce the duration of the quarantine imposed on people positive for Covid-19 to 7 days compared to the previous 10, at a time when the record number of infections raises, as elsewhere, fears of economic destabilization.
The measure is aimed at striking a balance between “public health” and “economic growth”, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told reporters before the decision was formalized by the health ministry, which issued a statement.
Spain, which, like the rest of the world, is facing an outbreak of the Omicron variant, is in turn one of the first countries to reduce the duration of quarantine for those infected with Covid-19.
The Spanish authorities had already recommended on December 21st that no more quarantine be imposed on fully vaccinated people who came into close contact with people infected with the Omicron variant, but simply to limit their contact.
Contact persons who have not been vaccinated should, on the other hand, continue to observe a quarantine, which, however, has now been reduced from 10 to 7 days.
In order to always reduce the possibility of problems in the operation of the services, the municipal authority of Madrid decided that some of its employees will be able to work despite having a positive test, if their viral load, and therefore the their infectivity, range at fairly low levels.
Spain broke its record today with 99,671 recorded cases in 24 hours. The previous wave of daily records was in mid-January and amounted to almost 40,000 infections in 24 hours.
Source: AMPE
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