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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (c), during a rally this Sunday in Palencia to present the Socialist candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León, Luis Tudanca (i). (EFE / Nacho Gallego)
The Government will put an end to the skyrocketing price of antigen tests. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has confirmed that the Executive plans to intervene in the prices of these diagnostic tests, although he has acknowledged that the “bottleneck” in supply chains due to high demand has already been “resolved”. During an interview on Cadena SER, the chief executive has also advanced that Spain will acquire 344,000 doses of Pfizer’s anticovid pill this same month of January.
The antiviral Paxlovid, according to Sánchez, reduces by 80% the possibility of hospitalization in people at risk. At the same time, the Executive trusts the vaccination process to combat the pandemic, avoiding hardening the measures and even betting on “starting to evaluate the evolution of this disease with parameters different from those of now”, under the premise that it evolves towards an endemic disease. Despite everything, the President of the Government has advanced that the peak of infections and, therefore, hospitalizations, “is going to take place over the next few weeks.”
