The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, referred this Saturday to the coronavirus pandemic and expressed that Today “you don’t have to be guided by the tests but by the symptoms”, in a context of rising cases. This is because the tests may have “less efficacy” with the new variant of covid-19.
In radio statements, he stated that with the variant BA.2 “perhaps the tests that one can buy at the pharmacy are less effective”. Kreplak specified that “many times they are negative and then they are positive”, and that therefore the reference goes through the symptoms and not the tests.
The official graphed in this way: “A person who is symptomatic, it can be covid or something else… they have to do isolation. It doesn’t matter what its cause is. You must isolate yourself for five days and then five more days of maximum protection. That is the protocol, without the need to test. I say this because out there one goes and buys the test at the pharmacy or goes to a testing place and it is negative, then you think you don’t have covid and in reality many times they are false negatives “.
In this sense, Kreplak considered that the number of registered cases would be below the real number, because there is no more follow-up on a case-by-case basis. He explained that this monitoring is no longer done “because hospitalizations and deaths do not increase”. This is because the lethality decreased “as a result of the vaccination campaign”, to the point that “there is no possible risk that it will saturate the health system”.
In turn, the minister of Axel Kicillof valued and CNN Radio the use of the Sputnik V vaccine. “I have an extraordinary gratitude for that vaccine. We had it many months before the rest of the vaccines, the others did not arrive”. He remarked that the Russian vaccine “allowed us to contain the second wave, which was tremendous.” He recalled that “the worst moment of the pandemic was the winter wave of 2021 and it caught us with the vaccinated health team and with a large part of those over 65 years of age vaccinated. That was an abysmal difference.”
Along these lines, he stressed that “The lethality of the second wave was 1.5 out of every 100 who were infected and in the first wave it was 3.5. The difference was the vaccine and the vaccine was Sputnik”.
He added: “Sinopharm gave us 3 months later. Pfizer, no way, we were able to get it many months later. AstraZeneca had production problems. The Russians gave us this vaccine, which has proven to be one of the most effective in the world, and Unfortunately, the WHO did not approve it,” in his opinion, for political reasons and not because of its effectiveness against the coronavirus..
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