THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 14 - 17 Issue No. 1908
27 Jan - 2 Feb 2022
The Ukraine problem POLITICAL party Més per Mallorca has indicated that the Spanish Government in the shape of Minister of Defence Margarita Robles, as well as her counterpart of Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares should ex‐ plain the reason for send‐ ing Spanish armed forces to the vicinity of the Ukraine. In particular, they need to clarify the reason for sending elements of the Spanish navy to the Black Sea as well as a possible deployment of the air force in Bulgaria and con‐ firm the position of the Spanish State in the face of conflict. Representative Vicenç Vidal said that “neither NATO nor Russia currently have resolved an agree‐ ment and now need to continue the dialogue to the Ukrainian question, which needs to de‐esca‐ late, demilitarise and with constant diplomatic review work to reach a culture‐ based solution bringing peace, human rights, re‐ spect for minorities as well as territorial sovereignty.” He believes that the Eu‐ ropean Union needs to be‐ come involved in helping to reach a diplomatic solu‐ tion and that NATO should not at this stage offer membership to the Ukraine.
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ANTIGEN TESTS AT PHARMACIES
Credit: Balearic Government
SECURE SERVICE: Antigen tests can now be taken at pharmacies.
MORE than 170 pharmacies in the Balearic Islands have joined the network of centres where Covid‐19 antigen tests can be carried out and the result can be officially notified to the Health Service of the Islands. This was announced by the Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, Patricia Gómez, and the President of the College of Pharma‐ cists of the Balearic Islands (COFIB), Antoni Real on Monday January 24. The purpose of the agreement and the es‐ tablished procedures is to provide an effec‐ tive, secure service that, at all times will re‐ spect the personal data of the person being tested in exactly the same way as if the per‐ son went to a point of the Health Service to do so. Expanding the network of tests is a very important step to improve the service to all citizens, to help everyone manage the dis‐ ease. “Pharmacists are a very involved group and usually give advice to office users. Therefore, we think that they will do an extraordinary job, which will alleviate the burden of other
professionals in the Service,” said the Minis‐ ter, who thanked COFIB for the collaboration provided throughout the pandemic. Thanks to this agreement, users will be able to purchase the test at pharmacies at the maximum price at €2.94 and pharmacists will be able to offer them the possibility of doing the test at the pharmacy itself so that people can take advantage of professional advice. If this is the case, the pharmacist will advise the user how to perform the on‐site test cor‐ rectly and to interpret the result. It will also assess the symptoms and the criteria for in‐ clusion in the group of vulnerable people through an interview and filling in the fields of a specific form. It should be noted that before carrying out the procedure, the pharmacist must explain the importance of notifying the result to the health system and must offer the user the possibility that the pharmacy should do this and they must sign an informed consent, which is a document that authorises the pharmacy to notify the test result.
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DRIVING SURVEILLANCE DRIVERS heading to the Serra de Tramuntana need to en‐ sure that they are on their best behaviour especially at weekends as the Guardia Civil will be undertaking regular checks on the roads in the surrounding area. Last weekend (January 22 and 23) they established the first of a number of planned surveillance and control points in the main roads running through various municipalities in conjunction with officers from the Local Police forces. The problems that they are trying to stamp out concern speeding and noise, especially from motorcycle riders who often drive in large concentrations on the MA‐10 main road. During their first exercise, no less than 108 vehicles were identified as being potentially a problem of which 90 were indeed motor bikes. In the event, some 38 riders or drivers were stopped and may be prosecuted with 20 considered to be speeding, whilst others had no driving licence or were driving danger‐ ously by not respecting minimum safety distances or cross‐ ing unbroken white lines to overtake. The idea behind this is to educate those who want to visit the Serra de Tramuntana that they have an obligation not to bother residents in the local municipalities and to remember that there are other visitors, many of which are with young families, who should be able to enjoy a stress‐free day out.