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So far, around 16,500 booster doses against covid-19 have been applied, as reported by the Minister of Public Health, Karina Rando, in an interview for Presidential Communication. Eight days after the start of inoculation, the minister considered that the figure “is good”, even higher than expected.
The leader also gave an overview of Uruguay regarding the virus and compared it with the current situation in other countries. Regarding this, he maintained that in the current epidemiological week, which is the fifth, it cannot be “said that there is a resurgence,” because “what we have is a viral circulation that is a little higher than the previous epidemiological weeks.” In fact, the current circulation is lower than that corresponding to the same period in 2023.
Regarding the contagion groups, the minister said that “it is not possible to know which people are being infected the most” because the current monitoring is not universal. The current stage of the virus “is endemic”, meaning that the country is experiencing covid-19 as a chronic disease. Those who are sampled are patients who attend one of the eight reference hospitals that function as sentinel centers in different parts of the country, and the analysis of these records shows that severe acute respiratory infections manifest in people over 65 years of age.
As for the rest of the world, Rando added that today there is a slight increase, which occurs especially in the northern hemisphere. In the countries of that region there is an increase in circulation, although “it is not necessarily accompanied by an increase in severity and mortality.” In the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization issued a statement on the behavior of the virus in the different regions, according to which in North America and the United States specifically there is “a slight increase and a circulation that, although it can be considered high”, is counterbalanced by the fact that the population “is very well vaccinated.” Finally, in South America there are countries like Argentina that have “medium to high” circulation.
Regarding the vaccine that Uruguay acquired for the booster dose, Rando explained that it is a Pfizer vaccine that has “certain modifications” with respect to those acquired on other occasions. The vaccine was modified to cover “genetically sequenced viruses” currently circulating.
2024-02-08 22:46:10
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