The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has reported the agreement reached to limit the maximum price of the COVID-19 self-diagnostic antigen tests to 2.94 euro after the completion of the meeting of the Interministerial Commission on Drug Prices . The Interministerial Drug Price Commission is the competent body for setting the prices of drugs that are financed in the National …

The president of the Valencia region, Ximo Puig, has announced an agreement so that the pharmacies of the Valencian Community can notify positive cases of COVID-19 face-to-face antigen tests and register them in the database of the Conselleria de Sanidad Universal y Salud Public with the consent of the people who have made them.   This has been explained by …

The Conselleria de Sanidad Universal has detailed the main changes in the coronavirus detection strategy in the Valencian Community, which include that, when carrying out the traces, the census of contacts of confirmed cases will include only cohabitants and intimate contacts who are especially vulnerable. In close contacts, both vaccinated and not vaccinated, priority will be given to performing a …

The Valencian Ministry of Health extends the validity of chronic treatments for a period of two months, the expiration of which was to occur in January and February.   In this way, all those patients with chronic treatments planned for periods of 180 or more days, whose completion was to occur before February 28, 2022, will have two additional months …

More than 400 health workers from Quirónsalud hospitals and medical centres in Valencia, Alicante, Torrevieja and Murcia participate in the campaign. The soundtrack has been recorded by the Orchestra of Young Musicians of Torrevieja   Health has many faces: that of humanity, that of involvement, that of teamwork, that of innovation and many more. In the hospitals and medical centres …

In encouraging news for international travel, American Airlines is increasing its Summer schedule by restarting ten routes to the US from airports in the UK and Europe. These include flights from major travel hubs including Barcelona El Prat, Dublin, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Madrid Barajas, Milan Malpensa, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Rome Fiumicino. As part of American’s alliance with Alaska …

Yesterday Spain became the fifth country in Europe to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia for long-suffering patients of incurable diseases and people with unbearable permanent conditions. The Spanish parliament’s lower house voted 202-140 with two abstentions on the final passage of the euthanasia bill. MPs from Spain’s left-wing governing coalition and other parties supported it, while conservative and far-right lawmakers …

New analysis reinforces that lateral flow tests are accurate and reliable and have extremely low false positive rates. New analysis of community testing data shows lateral flow tests to have a specificity of at least 99.9% This means fewer than one false positive in every 1,000 lateral flow tests carried out New analysis published today shows lateral flow tests (LFD) …

The European Commission has laid out proposals to create a Digital Green Certificate to facilitate “safe free movement” within the EU during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Digital Green Certificate will act as proof a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19, received a negative test result or recovered from having had the virus. It will record if a person has received a Covid-19 …

Virgin Atlantic is urging the reopening of UK and US borders to enable vital transatlantic flights to resume. The call came exactly a year since the US closed its borders to UK and Irish citizens and the week that the airline secured £160 million in additional funding in the face of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. North Atlantic routes represented around 70% of …

Travel to and within the European Union this summer could be opened up if Brussels agrees plans today (Wednesday) for Covid-19 vaccine certificates. The European Commission’s plan for a ‘digital green certificate’ will be a proof of vaccination, immunity and test results, preventing the need for quarantines or travel bans. Spain, Greece, Italy and other Mediterranean countries will be able …

Heathrow Airport CEO Emma Gilthorpe told MPs the wait for processing at border points is at an ‘unacceptable level’ with waits of up to six hours. Gilthorpe told the Home Affairs Select Committee ‘the level of complexity of the processes’ is causing huge bottlenecks. Due to specific protocols, all of Heathrow’s self-service e-gates at passport control are currently closed. International …