The general director of Health Surveillance was in charge of sharing the data.
The Ministry of Health reported that chikungunya cases are progressively dispersing within the country, mainly in the departments of Alto Paraná and Guairá, where there is the greatest “weight of the epidemic”, outside Central and Capital.
The general director of Health Surveillance, Guillermo Sequera, although he acknowledged that at the beginning of the year there was a progressive increase in cases in Asunción and Central, at the end of February this began to decrease, in contrast to what happens in the currently in some areas of the interior of the country, where the increase in the number of notifications is registered.
“In the last three weeks we had almost 15,000 cases of chikungunya, we remain at a plateau of cases that would be 5,000 nationwide,” Sequera said this Friday, during the weekly press conference of the health portfolio that took place at the headquarters ministerial.
In this sense, he said that in the Central department there are around 8,000 weekly notifications and Capital “much more”, he assured at the time of specifying that 49 percent of the cases are in these two areas.
Luque, San Lorenzo, Lambaré, Capiatá, Limpio and Mariano Roque Alonso, are the districts hardest hit by the virus in the Central department. “We are also with cases of dengue in Central, there are few cases but we have, mainly in Limpio,” he pointed out.
