Ankara (Zaman Turkish) – Spanish health authorities and health departments in the country’s seventeen autonomous governments have ratified a protocol that includes working from home, wearing masks, obtaining vaccinations and ventilation measures to confront the increasing spread of the influenza virus.
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Garcia added that working from home and wearing masks inside health facilities are saving measures, saying: “We said this is necessary and possible, and we succeeded in this.”
The protocol presented working from home, wearing masks, obtaining vaccines, and ventilation as proposals for citizens at the present time, indicating the tightening of measures according to four risk scenarios that include classifications of “low risk,” “medium risk,” “high risk,” and “extreme risk,” and the possibility of imposing them compulsorily.
The protocol added that the data received from the acute respiratory infections monitoring system, the daily mortality monitoring system, and the vaccination information system will be continuously monitored, with the possibility of increasing procedures according to the filling rates of hospitals and intensive care units.
The protocol explained that if the influenza virus reaches a “extremely dangerous” level, the procedure for wearing a mask will become mandatory, as it was during the Corona virus pandemic.
The authorities are calling for special attention to be given to wearing masks inside nursing homes and hospitals, based on the current situation of the influenza virus in Spain.
On the other hand, the governments of the autonomous regions began campaigns to vaccinate citizens against the influenza virus for free.
The local administration in Madrid, where the average infection with the influenza virus is 112 people out of every 100,000 people, announced that vaccines will be provided in hospitals without prior appointments.
Data from the Carlos III Institute of Health indicate that influenza virus infections have turned into an epidemic in Spain, reaching three times what they were during the same period of the previous year.
Experts attribute the reason for the increase in infections among children in the age group between one and four years to the early and rapid spread of the new influenza variant called “Subklade K.”
