In the update of the so-called traffic light this Saturday by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (Mspas), 138 localities are in red, compared to 217 14 days ago, a trend considered downward.
Meanwhile, 185 classified orange, 68 more, and only 17 achieved yellow (medium alert).
Although the daily numbers of infections are no longer between three thousand and four thousand cases as in January and February (beginning of the fourth wave of the pandemic), the health authorities insist on their call to maintain biosecurity measures in the face of a certain relaxation. in the correct and mandatory use of the mask and crowds in markets and stores.
Two years after the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, entered here, the color green (“new normality”) is still a chimera, despite the ongoing national vaccination strategy, which encompasses to over 12 years old and since last week to children between six and 11 years old.
Immunization against the disease started here in February 2021, mainly with donated vaccines, but to date the inequality between urban and rural areas marks the campaign despite multiple strategies underway to raise the figure with a complete scheme.
According to the most recent Mspas report, of a goal set at 12,650,476 people, only 45.84 percent received their two doses; however, this statistic drops to 20 percent in the interior areas and fundamentally among the indigenous population due to myths and deficiencies in the communication campaign.
This weekend, the Portfolio once again extended the hours of operation in the more than 700 positions enabled for inoculation so that Guatemalans can easily access the different components of Moderna, Pfizer and Sputnik V and their reinforcement.
To date, this Central American country concentrates the largest number of deaths in the area with 17,206, while the accumulated cases total 814,111.
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