Darias: “The successive waves of Covid are and will be a problem of adaptation to the new normality”

Carolina Darias, Minister of Health, welcomes the fact that Spain has reached the 75% of vaccination. A triumph of the health system and of “Spanish citizenship”. But still, the defeat of the Covid is far from happening. Although vaccines are being “a turning point, the successive waves are and will be a problem of adaptation to the new normality. A problem that is common to all countries, we have not finished finding a way to live with the virus. “

For this reason, the person in charge of health policies in Spain is committed to international coordination in the management of the pandemic, as well as to facilitate the immunization of countries with fewer resources. “Because, we defend the temporary release of certain intellectual property rights obligations“That is to say, of patents of all types of products related to Covid.

“We have an obligation to our fellow men: the Government of Spain assumes that we must share knowledge, increase production and accelerate distribution -of vaccines- and that no one is left behind, no one is left behind. “The goal: that by 2022 40% of the world’s vaccinated population will be reached.

The Minister of Health has addressed these issues in an intervention with which the ‘II Health Observatory Symposium: The Lessons of Covid-19’ was opened, organized by EL ESPAÑOL and Invertia and which began this Monday.

On the other hand, regarding the advancement of vaccination in Spain, which has allowed it to become one of the most successful countries within the framework of the OECD and the EU, it has ensured that “it’s not a miracleIt is about the National Health System “. And he has insisted that it is the result of health professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, managers …” But above all it is a success for Spanish citizens and a success for the country. Reaching this achievement thus makes us more resistant to the virus. “

Although he highlighted the European Union’s strategy for the advance purchase of anti-Covid vaccines, he highlighted the “immense effort” that “in just eight months the Spanish health system more than 63 million inoculated doses.”