The European Commission has urged Member States to increase surveillance guidelines, for example by analyzing wastewater. For its part, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control insists that the variants detected in China “are already circulating in the EU.”
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The European Commission has recognized that the increase in coronavirus cases in China is “alarming” and “perhaps sooner rather than later” need to be introduced new control measuresalthough for now it has urged Member States to increase surveillance guidelines, for example sequencing samples to detect new variants or analyzing wastewater, especially that from airports.
This has been stated by the European Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, in a letter sent to the Health Ministers of the Twenty-seven and in which she insists that Brussels monitor the evolution of events “closely”, something that has already been made clear on Thursday with an extraordinary call from the Health Security Committee.
He admits that the data from China are “quite scarce” and the level of vaccination in this country is “low”, both aspects that have already led several countries to take action on your own. Within the EU, Spain has joined Italy this Friday, which already took a first step on Wednesday.
The commissioner assumes that you need to be “prepared”, although for now there is no common measure. From Thursday’s meeting, however, a “broad consensus” would have emerged that member states should act in a coordinated manner so that the measures that can be adopted are effective.
As “immediate” initiatives, Kyriakides proposes sequencing samples to detect new variants. If an unknown variant appeared, it would be necessary “react fast”Add.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has reiterated this Friday that the variants currently present in China “they are already circulating in the EU”so in principle the appearance of more cases would not jeopardize the “immune response” that European citizens already have.
Source: Eitb
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