The Minister of Health of the Government of Navarra, Santos Induráin, highlighted that the new restrictions due to the spread of Covid-19, which came into force this Wednesday, allow “to gain time” and allow “to preserve the capacity of the health system to respond to Covid and non-Covid needs, some of them indemovable.” And he has warned that “with such high incidents there will continue to be much more income.”
This was indicated in a press conference in which she appeared accompanied by the general director of Health, Carlos Artundo, and the managing director of the Navarra Institute of Public and Labor Health (ISPLN). Indurán highlighted some measures, which have been worked with Aragón, La Rioja, CAV, Cantabria and Asturias “seeking a consensus” by having a very similar epidemiological situation.
In addition, Induráin has assured that “vaccination is not enough” to fight against covid-19 and has defended his department’s commitment to restrictive measures “to cut the transmission of the virus.”
Induráin has insisted on “the three pillars of the fight against covid-19” such as “protection, detection and vaccination” to cut a transmission that “is exceeding the records of the pandemic.”
The Omicron variant already accounts for 42% of infections in Navarra, when two weeks ago it had an incidence of 2.5% of cases, as indicated by Marian Nuin, who has highlighted that for each contagion there are another 2.35.
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Induráin explained that this Wednesday the regional order with the new restrictions in Navarra has come into force, which includes, among other measures, the closing hours of a series of stores and activities between 1:00 am and 6:00 am, and the extension of the Covid passport to various establishments. The “readaptation” of the tracking protocol has also entered into force, turning the detection and surveillance system towards cases of Covid-19 with symptoms and in people and spaces, such as the socio-sanitary.
Induráin has called not to observe these measures as individual but within “a broader package of performances“within” our lines of action in this pandemic “focused on prevention, detection and vaccination.
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The counselor stressed that these interventions “by themselves are not enough” but “in a synergistic way they end up bearing fruit and some allow us to gain time for others to be effective”. In addition, he stressed that they allow “to preserve the capacity of the health system to respond to Covid and non-Covid needs, some of them indemovable.” A system, he said, that must “continue to be reinforced with material and human resources in this cycle.”
VACCINATION IN NAVARRE
Vaccination against Covid-19 in Navarra has prevented 24,000 infections, 4,110 hospital admissions, 500 admissions to the Intensive Care Unit and 850 deaths, according to simulations from the Navarra Public Health Institute.
This was indicated at a press conference by the Minister of Health, Santos Induráin, who stressed that around the people who are admitted to the ICU were not vaccinated. In this sense, he has valued the “great citizen response” and the “enormous work of the vaccination teams.”
As reported, more than 1.2 million doses have already been administered in the Autonomous Community and 537,544 people have the complete regimen, 92% of those over 12 years of age and 85% including children between 5 and 11 years old. years, the last to join the vaccination process. In this section, 24.8% already have the first dose and 46.2% are either cited or vaccinated.
Regarding the third booster dose, 92.6% of those over 70 years of age and 85.6% of the population between 60 and 69 years have already received it. In the 50-59 age bracket, 21% have already been vaccinated and 63% are already cited or vaccinated.
Induráin has also affirmed that the implementation and extension of the Covid passport, which more than 460,000 citizens have already downloaded, has “promoted vaccination in age groups where there was more reluctance” such as between 30 and 39 years, with 80% with one dose, and from 40 to 49 years, with 90% with at least one dose. He has also valued that “he has stimulated” the vaccination without appointment in Forem with more than 10,000 vaccinated people.
The counselor has been convinced that the “acceleration” of vaccination will allow “very soon” to reach the general vaccination of 200,000 Navarrese over 60 years, a population that “traditionally were those most at risk of income and complications “.
Santos Induráin has recognized that the health system is “very stressed” but has specified that “it is not comparable with what was the first stage of the Covid”, when there was no vaccine. However, he has called to be “very prudent” because “only due to the quantitative effect of such high incidences, sooner or later there is a lag that causes income and deaths”. Likewise, it has drawn attention to the “overload and congestion” of Primary Care in the monitoring and detection of mild cases.
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