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Health sows more confusion on requirements to wear a facemask
The mandatory use of a facemask, even when there is the required safety distance introduced as part of the so-called ‘new normal’ law, has spread confusion and opened up a significant argument on Wednesday at the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System composed of by the Ministry of Health and the Autonomous Communities.
Pressure from a number of regional officials, including the Valencian Conseleria of Health, Ana Barceló, led the minister, Carolina Darias , to promise to review the law that prevents people removing their mask even if walking alone along a beach or wandering lonely amongst the clouds on top of a mountain, regardless of the incidence of infections in the Autonomous Community where you are.
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Teachers waiting to receive their vaccinations
Teachers and staff from across the Valencian Community began to receive the Astrazeneca vaccine against the coronavirus on Monday in the first mass vaccination trial in the Valencian Community.
The day began well in La Fe field hospital and at a number of other authorised points but it ended in confusion, both for those who had received the vaccine and for those also who are yet to be inoculated in the midst of some uncertainty.
Vaccinations began at 3pm despite the decisions of some countries such as France, Germany and Italy, to stop the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to several cases of thrombosis in people to whom it had been administered.
The Minister of Health , Salvador Illa, has demanded this Wednesday a plan from the autonomous communities that want to perform antigen tests in pharmacies for the detection of coronavirus cases, Madrid Community and Catalonia had requested authorization from the central government to do so.
Now, the minister, who has chaired the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System from Mérida, has asked them to detail, for example, if they propose separate circuits for tests and other citizens who are going to collect medicines. Or how they will link the data collected with the public health services, among other issues.