The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has once again insisted that to protect itself from the omicron variant of the coronavirus it is necessary to receive the third dose of the vaccine. It is Tuesday, moreover, the European Union has confirmed that the Covid passport it will stop being effective 9 months after you have received the second dose.
This measure will come into force as of February 1, as Brussels announced today, so that the governments of the member states have time to prepare. This tightening of restrictions against the pandemic coincides with the unstoppable advance of omicron, which is already the dominant mutation in several countries.
In Spain it has gone from supposing, in just a few days, 3% of infections to become responsible for 47% of positives.
Less contacts, mask and curfew
In this context, the regional presidents will take this Wednesday to the conference called by the head of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, a varied list of proposals against the extension of the sixth wave of the Covid, from the curfew that Catalonia raises to the change of criteria of quarantines that Madrid requests, although what many agree on is that common measures be agreed to all of Spain.
Catalonia, which on Monday night announced the return at curfew, begins today the vaccination of the third dose to people who have received the previous two of Astra Zeneca (AZ), whether or not they are over 60 years of age, to protect them against the low effectiveness of this vaccine against the omicron variant.
The poor effectiveness of the AZ vaccine The ómicron variant has been verified by the United Kingdom health service, according to its latest report issued last Friday, the 17th, so this group has become a priority, along with people between 60 and 69 years old.
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