https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/18/spain-to-move-from-treating-covid-19-as-a-pandemic-to-an-endemic"Spain to move from treating COVID-19 as a pandemic to an endemic illness Access to the comments Comments
By Euronews with AP • Updated: 18/01/2022
Spain has suggested it wants to change the way it monitors the pandemic in order to return to normal life by no longer seeing it as a pandemic, but as an endemic illness such as an ordinary cold virus.
At a joint news conference following a meeting with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Madrid on Monday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the Spanish government was exploring how and when the management of the COVID-19 pandemic would shift to the management of the coronavirus as an endemic illness.
The country has seen its COVID-19 fatality rate fall from an initial 13% to 1%, and according to Sánchez "the virus is no longer so deadly".
The move would mean that Spanish health authorities would look upon the coronavirus like influenza, treating it as endemic.
However, for Dr. Jeffrey Lazarus, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), the "end is not in sight yet".
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