The Director of Public Health of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Maria Neira, called for “combating enthusiasm and euphoria” when considering removing masks from indoor spaces, after some experts pointed it out as a possibility for the end of winter. Neira warned in Catalunya Ràdio that the pandemic had learned it posting dates is “complicated” and that the current weeks are “critical”, although they later expect “good news”.
The Director of Public Health of the WHO trusts that the situation will be “much more positive” in the spring and believe that 2022 the “acute phase of the emergency “to enter a” control “and that the covid” can be managed in a different way “. Neira showed sensible when they asked him about the possibility of eliminating the masks from the Interior spaces to avoid covid infections in the coming weeks. “We hope it can be better as soon as possible,” he decided.
natural immunity
The Director of Public Health has indicated that they are confident in a “much more positive” situation in the spring, taking into account a “certain seasonality“, the” natural immunity “that many people have and the “very high” vaccination, despite the fact that he remembered that it is not worldwide.
Neira believes that in 2022 it will be possible to management phase of covid, with an epidemiological surveillance system and treatment and care measures “different” from those of the past two years. In this forecast, the plans of the Department of Health announced in recent days by the ‘councilor’ Josep Maria Argimon on the change of management of the pandemic if the cases remain mild are framed.
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no quarantine
The WHO representative prefers not to talk about ‘flu’, but about a “adjustment phase to live with a virus that could become an epidemic, but that would not have the same serious impact as it has had so far. “Dr. Neira points out that they have more resources to manage covid and believe that will not “generate the seriousness in the clinical presentation “of the last few months and will not” require a quarantine or extraordinary measures “.” As a society we will be able to manage it otherwise, ”he predicts.
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