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No new Covid restrictions yet, but regional heads to hold joint conference on Wednesday 22nd
19/12/2021
Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, today announced that he has called all the regional leaders to a video conference next Wednesday, December 22nd, in order to discuss the Covid situation, and to coordinate regional responses to the current sharp increase in cases, especially of the Omicron variant of the disease.
"The virus is not going away,” he reminded us, “and the fight to control its spread needs to remain a priority for every regional government".
The conference, which will take place just two days before Christmas Eve, has been called "to review the pandemic situation and to evaluate new measures that could be implemented over the coming weeks", Sánchez said.
Throughout his speech today, the President talked about “universal measures” and made no mention of any immediate new restrictions, even though the current situation, with the recent spike in the number of cases being reported “suggests a real and present risk”
In view of the recent rapid rise in infection rates, Sánchez urged regional governments to "strengthen" their current measures, but in a coordinated fashion, hence the decision to call Wednesday’s conference.
In his speech, Sánchez warned that even though incidence rates were “lower in Spain than in many of the neighbouring countries, they could not be considered good". According to the latest Health Authorities report, Spain is in the “high risk” category as the cumulative incidence has shot up to 511 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days.
Sánchez also underlined the fact that this latest wave of the pandemic was displaying "different characteristics" and was affecting people "in a different fashion", with much higher infection rates than the same time last year, but much lower rates of hospitalisation, and far fewer people in the ICUs.
"In view of this, he continued, “the main conclusion we can draw is that vaccination works, and our only way out of this health crisis is to trust the science”.
Within this context, he noted the big difference from last year, when the vaccination programme had not even begun in Spain, to the current situation where 90% of over 12s have been given both doses of the vaccine.
The President also praised the "formidable response" from the population with regard to vaccinating children between 5 and 11 years old, with “almost 5% already vaccinated in the first three days” of the programme being initiated".
"To give you an idea of the magnitude of the vaccination task in hand, let me just say that last Friday alone, half a million doses of the vaccine were administered", he continued, insisting that "vaccination is our best weapon against the virus" and that we need to "press on with it".
In addition, he also insisted on the need to continue with the "complementary" measures that have been “shown to be effective”, like the use of face masks and other "preventative measures".
Lastly, Sánchez sent a message of "trust" and "peace of mind" to the people of Spain: "We have already walked together along the hardest part of the journey and together we are going to make it to our goal, protecting the lives and health of our compatriots".
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Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, today announced that he has called all the regional leaders to a video conference next Wednesday, December 22nd, in order to discuss the Covid situation, and to coordinate regional responses to the current sharp increase in cases, especially of the Omicron variant of the disease.
"The virus is not going away,” he reminded us, “and the fight to control its spread needs to remain a priority for every regional government".
The conference, which will take place just two days before Christmas Eve, has been called "to review the pandemic situation and to evaluate new measures that could be implemented over the coming weeks", Sánchez said.
Throughout his speech today, the President talked about “universal measures” and made no mention of any immediate new restrictions, even though the current situation, with the recent spike in the number of cases being reported “suggests a real and present risk”
In view of the recent rapid rise in infection rates, Sánchez urged regional governments to "strengthen" their current measures, but in a coordinated fashion, hence the decision to call Wednesday’s conference.
In his speech, Sánchez warned that even though incidence rates were “lower in Spain than in many of the neighbouring countries, they could not be considered good". According to the latest Health Authorities report, Spain is in the “high risk” category as the cumulative incidence has shot up to 511 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days.
Sánchez also underlined the fact that this latest wave of the pandemic was displaying "different characteristics" and was affecting people "in a different fashion", with much higher infection rates than the same time last year, but much lower rates of hospitalisation, and far fewer people in the ICUs.
"In view of this, he continued, “the main conclusion we can draw is that vaccination works, and our only way out of this health crisis is to trust the science”.
Within this context, he noted the big difference from last year, when the vaccination programme had not even begun in Spain, to the current situation where 90% of over 12s have been given both doses of the vaccine.
The President also praised the "formidable response" from the population with regard to vaccinating children between 5 and 11 years old, with “almost 5% already vaccinated in the first three days” of the programme being initiated".
"To give you an idea of the magnitude of the vaccination task in hand, let me just say that last Friday alone, half a million doses of the vaccine were administered", he continued, insisting that "vaccination is our best weapon against the virus" and that we need to "press on with it".
In addition, he also insisted on the need to continue with the "complementary" measures that have been “shown to be effective”, like the use of face masks and other "preventative measures".
Lastly, Sánchez sent a message of "trust" and "peace of mind" to the people of Spain: "We have already walked together along the hardest part of the journey and together we are going to make it to our goal, protecting the lives and health of our compatriots".
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