The Ministry of Health has recommended limit the number of participants in “public and social events”, especially during the celebrations of the Christmas holidays, as well as intensify control and monitoring measures for people from southern Africa.
This is advised by the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES) in the sixth update of the document in which it evaluates the risk of Sars-CoV-2 variants, in which it indicates that “the risk of new introductions of omicron in Spain is considered very high and that of dissemination, high”.
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“Due to the current epidemiological context and the uncertainties associated with the omicron variant, as well as a possible decrease in vaccine effectiveness over time, it is recommended to continue increasing the percentages of vaccination coverage and the administration of booster doses in target populations “, adds the CCAES, which asks”maintain and emphasize compliance with non-pharmacological control measures“.
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