The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) will give a new booster of vaccines against covid-19 while in the world cases and hospitalizations due to the virus are increasing and new variants appear, El País reported and confirmed The Observer.
Portfolio sources will follow the recommendations of the National Advisory Commission on Vaccination (CNAV).
El País reported that The doses will be given to people over 70 years of age, over 50 with comorbidities, immunosuppressed people, people with Down syndrome and pregnant women.
“Worrying trends” and new variants
At the beginning of September, the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed their concern about “worrying trends” in relation to covid-19 as winter approaches in the northern hemisphere and called for greater vaccination and surveillance of the virus.
Although the data is limited because many countries stopped reporting it, “we continue to see worrying trends regarding covid-19 as the winter season approaches –when people are closer together indoors– to the northern hemisphere”, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an online news conference.
“Deaths are rising in some parts of the Middle East and Asia. Admissions to intensive care units are growing in Europe and hospitalizations are increasing in several regions,” he detailed.
Around the world, scientists are monitoring three variants, according to the Financial Times. All three are descendants of the XBB variant (which in turn is a descendant of Omicron). The most dominant is the EG.5.1, nicknamed Eris. It was the fastest-growing variant in the Americas, Europe and the Western Pacific region, the WHO reported in August. Between July 10 and August 6o Nearly 1.5 million cases were reported, an increase of 80% compared to the previous 28 days.
At that time, the pediatric director of the Pereira Rossell Hospital, Álvaro Galiana, referred to Eris and pointed out that if the variations “continue to occur, in some way, “With the passage of time, the new vaccines must be adapted.”
“Because the antibodies may have been losing their capacity that have been generating so much for infections as for the successive vaccines that we have had in our population,” he explained to Telenoche.
Galiana said that “We have been with Ómicron for more than a year and a half” and that there have been “many sublineages.”
“This has generated certain peaks because those sublineages that appear within the Ómicron variant mean that the capacity of the antibodies that we have to inactivate that virus, “to prevent the virus from sticking to the cells of our respiratory system is decreasing”explained the infectious disease specialist.
On the other hand, in addition to Eris, there is the FL.1.5.1 variant, which is called Fornax (oven in Latin) and It is currently the second most common variant in the United States.
And the most recent variant It is the BA.2.86, nicknamed Pirola, which has been registered in nine countries since September 5.
2023-09-21 12:35:00
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