Just before pupils go back to school, the Public Health Commission has agreed this Friday to eliminate quarantines in schools from Monday and only apply them in classes where a minimum of five students or 20% of the total test positive. In this case, the isolation period will not exceed seven days, the same time that is kept for the general population. This means groups in which under five cases are detected will continue with their regular classroom activity, except for the sick students, as it is considered to be a "sporadic" situation that does not need any preventive isolation.

The fully vaccinated will not have to quarantine for ten days if they are in close contact with a person infected with the Omicrion variant. In the end, the Catalan Department of Health will not carry out its Public Health protocol, which prescribed preventive isolation for all close contacts, regardless of whether they were vaccinated or not. Instead, the agreement reached by the Public Health Commission – a weekly meeting between the Spanish Ministry of Health and experts representing the regional governments – will prevail. On Tuesday this measure was reversed, as requested by the Madrid regional government.