This January is nothing like 2022 in relation to Covid cases. While a year ago the testing centers were exploding with people and the Omicron subvariant generated thousands of positives per day, now there are very few confirmed infections and sales of home tests dispensed in pharmacies even fell sharply, when in October and November they had hit a huge leap, heralding what seemed like a new wave in the pandemic.
According to data from the municipal Health Secretariat, this week coronavirus cases fell again. While the previous week 327 infections were counted, this Thursday 116 had been reported, 64.5% less.
Of the 281 hospitalized for respiratory problems, only two minors and two older ones had to be admitted for complications related to Covid. And there were no deaths from this cause.
“The reported cases of Covid, in hospitalized and outpatients, reached a maximum in the last weeks of 2022 and began to decline from epidemiological week 1 of 2023,” says the municipal Health report.
In any case, the recommendations regarding the ventilation of environments, frequent hand washing, not attending workplaces or meetings if you have symptoms of the disease (cough, bad cold, sore throat, headache) remain in force. , general discomfort). If two or more signs appear, you must isolate yourself for five days and maintain care (such as the use of a mask) for five more days, to avoid infecting other people.
The tests available in public health are intended for people over 50 years of age and of all ages in risk groups.
The tests that can be purchased in pharmacies at a cost close to 1,500 pesos are still on sale.
According to data from the College of Pharmacists, after a significant increase in demand (which occurred in the months of October and November, accompanied by an increase in positives that went from only 21 to 2,899 in a few weeks), now, in In the last days of January, sales decreased (down 58%) and also the positivity in the results.
Vaccination against Covid is recommended, as indicated by the different Health areas, both reinforcements and the start of the scheme (although in Santa Fe there are actually very few who have never been vaccinated).
This Thursday it was announced from the health portfolio of the provincial government that the doses of bivalent vaccines (with strains of the Wuhan virus and the Omicron subvariant) have arrived and that they will begin to be placed next week.
They are from the Pfizer laboratory and are indicated for people over 12 years of age, but in this case, they can only be used as a booster dose.
Boosters are placed whenever four months have passed since the last vaccination.
