La Nación / COVID-19 shows a decrease in the number of cases

According to what was expressed by the Director General of Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Health, Guillermo Sequera, the current wave of COVID-19 is losing strength, since he pointed out that there is a decrease in the number of cases in our country, as well as in the region.

He mentioned that at the local level, epidemiological week 8 of this year presents a total of 54 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and in the same week there was a single death from this disease. While the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic rises to 19,878 in our country.

Likewise, he explained that 11 people had to be hospitalized after suffering complications from the virus, with only one receiving care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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He indicated that throughout South America there is a significant decline. “Currently, we know that each wave of the disease occurs between 90 and 100 days. The decrease in the number of cases and deaths is, in large part, due to the impact of the start of mass vaccination, ”he highlighted.

It is worth mentioning that the fifth wave has lost strength since the beginning of this year, after the last peak that was registered between November and December 2022, which also led to an increase in the demand for COVID-19 tests.

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According to PAHO/WHO, vaccines activate the body’s natural defenses and thus reduce the risk of contracting diseases. They work by triggering a response from the immune system, which recognizes the invading microbe (for example, a virus or bacteria), generates antibodies, which are proteins that the immune system naturally produces to fight disease, and remembers the disease and how to fight it. .

If we are exposed to the germ that the vaccine protects against, our immune system can quickly destroy it before we start to feel sick. In short, vaccines are an ingenious and safe way to induce an immune response without causing disease.