Cuba will maintain vaccinations against covid-19 “as a preventative approach”, although the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, causing the pandemic, is no longer an international public emergency, the island’s authorities ratified.
“At the moment there is an increase in acute respiratory diseases in the country and this has led to emphasis on the study of the people at greatest risk, among whom cases of covid-19 emerge, although as a trend it is not leading to severe complications,” reported the head of Health, Dr. José Ángel Portal.
The minister made the statement at a government meeting that evaluated the behavior of the disease in April and agreed to apply “a preventive approach that includes the vaccination scheme of anti covid-19 reinforcement.
Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean that has its own vaccines against this disease, it has immunized its entire eligible population from two years of age with them and has carried out several booster vaccinations.
“Since June 2021 I have been injected six times, first to prevent the disease, when the coronavirus was at its peak killing people, and then with booster doses,” Juan Ciriano, 78, told MILENIO, who was required in 2019. remove a kidney
Framed in what is considered here “high-risk population”, Ciriano assures that “so far I have not had a cold” and points out that “The last reinforcement was given to me last January, because that campaign was only for people over 70 years of age, my wife, who is 68, will have the next round”.
He Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported today that until 12 pm yesterday “a total of 205 patients are hospitalized, 99 of them suspected of having contracted the disease and 106 confirmed active.”
For her part, Dr. Carilda Peña pointed out that “80 percent of the cases registered in the country are concentrated in five provinces (out of a total of 15), although the evolution of the patients is favourable”.
Covid-19 is no longer a planetary emergency, but it is still in force
Last Friday, the WHO declared that the new coronavirus was no longer a planetary emergency, pero specified at the same time that “it is still present and maintains the risk for millions of people”, most of them unvaccinated.
In this context, the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, He pointed out that the pandemic “brought to light the most pressing inequalities in our world, with the poorest and most vulnerable communities being the most affected, and the last to receive access to vaccines and other tools.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Francisco Durán, director of MINSAP, reported that “in Cuba the presence of the new variant of coronavirus Omicron xbb.1.16 has not been identified to date. (also called Arcturus), which already circulates in more than 30 countries, with a majority of cases in India.
The expert told the national press that the country “maintains border surveillance to detect, in a timely manner, any case suspicious and carefully follow the behavior of xbb.1.16 in the world”.
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2023-05-07 00:18:56
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