Lima, Nov 3 (EFE) .- Health representatives from the Loreto region, in the Peruvian Amazon, announced Thursday that this city is facing a fifth wave of COVID-19, given the increase in detected cases of the pandemic in recent days.
“We inform the public that we are already in the fifth wave of covid, since the fourth ended in August”, with a total of 4,153 cases, the deputy director of the Regional Health Directorate of Loreto, Clara Bustamante.
The official stressed that Loreto faces “a substantial increase” in cases compared to the month of October, when 100 cases were detected per week, while only on one day in November “102 cases were registered”.
He added that the epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) has established that there is a new case of coronavirus hospitalization in the social security hospital in the city of Caballococha, where no hospitalization for this cause had been reported since last July. .
He clarified, however, that most of the cases detected so far are mild and receive outpatient care, while stating that the Regional Health Directorate is alert to any change in the situation and has already issued an epidemiological alert.
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Minsa reported earlier this Wednesday that an increase in covid-19 cases was detected in Loreto and also in the southern Andean region of Moquegua, a week after the government lifted all restrictions imposed by the pandemic.
He specified, however, that new hospitalizations and deaths “remain at very low numbers and there are no hospitalizations” in the intensive care units (ICU) in the last three weeks.
The government of Peru, the country with the highest mortality rate in the world from covid-19, decided on October 26 to lift the state of emergency decreed two and a half years ago due to the pandemic, “thanks to the progress of vaccination and the decrease in the number of cases of illness, as reported at the time by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM).
According to the latest report published by Minsa, with data up to 22:00 local time last Tuesday (03:00 GMT on Wednesday), 35 new cases and 3 deaths from covid-19 have been reported.
In this way, Peru has reached 4,158,534 confirmed cases and 217,025 deaths in total, while another 477 people are still hospitalized in medical centers, 82 of them in intensive care units (ICU) with mechanical ventilation.
To date, the Andean country has administered more than 85.18 million doses of vaccines against covid-19 and more than 25.75 million people have received two doses, which is equivalent to 90% of its target population, which amounts to 28.5 million.
With the third dose, more than 20.89 million people are vaccinated, while those immunized with the fourth dose amount to over 5.48 million. EFE
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