With the suspension of the safe pass, there will be no sampling points and everyone, regardless of historical vaccination, if they want to be examined will go to pharmacies or clinical laboratories for Rapid Test or PCR respectively, said today the Minister of Health Michalis Hadjipandella. He also clarified that the free tests will be valid only for close contacts.
Reduction of the contagion rate to 0.6%, as well as a low daily number of cases is presented through the daily data received by the Ministry of Health , according to the competent Minister, Michalis Hadjipandela, who stated on Wednesday that there is a decrease in the treatment of patients with Covid 19, which currently amounts to 130 people.
Asked about this, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers, which decided on further relaxations, Mr. Hadjipandella assured that the Ministry receives the numbers daily, to note that the low numbers and the improvement of the epidemiological image of Cyprus allowed further relaxations in the measures.
However, he stressed that “the measures have been suspended and have not been repealed”, to further underline that “in case the self-protection measures are not observed, there is a possibility that the good image we have at the moment will cease to exist”.
He expressed the hope that there would be no new mutation, which would change the plans and need to stop this suspension.
He also said that there is a significant reduction in hospitalizations and specifically at the moment 130 people are hospitalized, to assure that the competent Ministry -although it does not announce the numbers daily- nevertheless monitors them properly.
The Minister of Health said that” we must return to normalcy and not bombard the world every night with the number of cases “, but clarified that the data are received and evaluated daily.
Answering another question, Mr. Hadjipandela stated that the test to stay will be abolished in schools, to note that it will remain in hospitals. In relation to the National Guard, he stated that the Ministry of Defense will decide on the matter, ie whether it will remain or not.
Regarding the images from Shanghai that see the light of day and If the Ministry of Health is concerned, he said that both he and the scientists are concerned.
He stated that he personally had a conversation on Saturday and Sunday with the EU Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakidou, who has informed him that there is nothing to worry about, however, added “it is a situation that we must constantly monitor and if there is any new mutation that should worry us, we will immediately receive the “In relation to the operation of clinics and wards in public hospitals, he said that they are gradually returning to their normalcy, to add that there are several patients who are treated outside coronavirus in clinics, while pr their interventions are normal.
Source: KYPE
