“Spain wants to return to normalcy with a new approach and watch the coronavirus like the flu,” the Düsseldorf financial newspaper Handelsblatt reported. The newspaper reports:
“The World Health Organization estimates that half of the EU population will be infected with the coronavirus in the next six to eight weeks. Infections are rising sharply in many states. That is why Spain is working on a new approach to how Europe should deal with the pandemic in the future. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in an interview with radio station Cadena SER that it may be time for other surveillance methods. “We have the conditions to gradually and carefully open the debate at the technical and European level and to assess the development of this disease with different parameters than before,” Sanchez said.
The report goes on to say: “Sanchez confirmed in an article in the El Pais newspaper that his government no longer wants to record the pandemic on a case-by-case basis, but wants to be monitored in general across the country by GPs. health centers and hospitals. Influenza progression is monitored in a similar way. According to Sanchez, the Spanish government has been working on such a plan for weeks. According to El Pais, the plans are now in the final phase. “Five autonomous Spanish regions have already piloted the new surveillance model … However, it will not be implemented before the end of the current sixth wave of coronavirus in Spain.”
DW – Maria Rigoutsou
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