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Date Published: 16/03/2022
ARCHIVED - Adios: Covid passport scrapped at nursing homes on the Costa Blanca
The Valencia region abolishes obligatory Covid passport completely from Thursday March 16
Following an explosion of new Covid infections at the beginning of the year, the Valencia region has turned a corner and emerged from the sixth wave of the pandemic.
All health indicators remain positive, although the fervent downward trajectory has slowed slightly in the last week, and the region's 14-day cumulative remains well below the national average.
In light of the health data, the region's Ministry of Health has ruled out extending the compulsory passport at elderly residences, and as of Thursday March 16, they will no longer be mandatory at the facilities.
"The covid certificate (proof of vaccination, negative test or recovery) will now serve exclusively for travel but won't be necessary for access to any establishments, at least in Alicante, Valencia and Castellón," explained the health authority.
Nursing homes were the last stronghold where the Covid pass was still required, despite the fact that more than three weeks ago it was scrapped for access to hotels, bars, restaurants, gyms and other public places.
The Ministry of Health signed the last extension of the measure until February 28, but a week earlier, given the positive evolution of the pandemic, it decided to bring forward its withdrawal in all places except elderly residences which are considered "more vulnerable" and Covid certificates were expected to be mandatory until the end of March.
The extension was met with criticism from The Business Association of Residences and Services for Dependent Persons (Aerte).
According to its president, José María Toro, the Covid certificate had already "fulfilled its function" and it made no sense to maintain it, "especially in an environment in which the visitors are always the same and the residents' relatives had already been asked for their passes repeatedly".
Aerte has been calling for weeks for the normalisation of measures in care homes, both in terms of the Covid passport and the 5% reserve of places that was introduced during the pandemic and remains obligatory in case of an outbreak.
Their calls are based on the fact the sixth wave has had a "lesser impact on the elderly", particularly with the administration of a third booster jab.
In the first week of March, 267 positives were recorded amongst elderly residents and 11 deaths, a stark contrast to the hundreds of weekly Covid-related fatalities in January 2021.
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