Spain is in full swing of the seventh wave of Covid

Experts believe the peak of this seventh wave will be reached in three weeks in Spain

“We are in full swing and we won’t reach the peak for three weeks,” the head of Internal Medicine at the Infanta Leonor Hospital, De Juan Torres, assured this week.

The fact that most Covid patients these days present with mild or no symptoms is something of a double-edged sword: on the one hand, the once-swamped healthcare sector is less burdened but on the other, “the disease is normalised and trivialised, and people begin to not be as careful as they should be.”

Just because cases are underreported and underdiagnosed, the experts argue, doesn’t mean that the pandemic is over.

According to Spain’s Ministry of Health, so far no difference in severity has been noted with the new strains, although the latest data shows a slight increase in hospital occupancy.

In the UK, Christina Pagel of University College London believes that “as long as Omicron remains dominant, it seems plausible that large waves of infections every three months or so are the norm.”

And “although the infections will not be problematic for most people, each wave will cause sick leave, serious illness and death for some, and persistent Covid for others.”

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