Salut alerts that the virus is already entering hospitals

The coronavirus is re-entering hospitals and infecting patients and healthcare professionals. This has been alerted this Wednesday at a press conference by the director of the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), Gemma Craywinckel, who has specified that it is something that already happened in other waves.

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“That has an impact that can be very negative both in users and patients, as in healthcare professionals. Even so, we will not prohibit the entry of companions into the health centers, “he said. The director of CatSalut explained that, for now, there is no “unbridled pressure” in health centers. “We are in a phase of containment, not of mitigation,” he added.

Craywinckel also explained that this Wednesday the vaccination of the booster doses at people 65 to 69 years old and later, progressively, those from 60 to 65 will be vaccinated. They can make an appointment on the web. vacunacovidsalut.cat. The third doses are already being given to people over 70 years old, to residential users, to those vaccinated with Janssen and to the immunosuppressed. They are also getting to health and social health personnel. In all cases, booster doses of Moderna or Pfizer are administered indistinctly.