Venezuela arrived on January 9, 1,030 days after the emergency for the arrival of the coronavirus had been decreed; On this day, the health authorities announced the diagnosis of 7 new COVID-19 infections.
Communications Minister Freddy Ñáñez added that there have been no new deaths from this viral disease in the last 24 years.
This recent toll locates community cases in Miranda 3, Yaracuy 3, Caracas 1. No infections from abroad have been reported.
In the case of Miranda, the municipalities located in the Capital District were the ones that presented the most diagnoses: Sucre 1, Baruta 1 and Chacao 1.
With these new data, the grand total reaches 550,754 confirmed cases, with 791 cases still active and 544,129 people recovered, representing 99% of the infections.
“To date we have 508 asymptomatic patients, 158 with mild acute respiratory failure, 81 with moderate acute respiratory failure and 44 in intensive care,” added Ñañez.
Global acceptance of the covid-19 vaccine increased in one year from 75.2% to 79.1% in 23 countries but decreased in eight, so “to end the pandemic as a public health threat, we need to include efforts that build trust and change the behaviors of the unvaccinated, undervaccinated, and indifferent.”
This can be seen from a study conducted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), published this Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, and which collects 23,000 surveys on the acceptance of covid-19 vaccines in 23 European countries, America, Asia and Africa and which make up over 60% of the world’s population.
Together with ISGlobal, the US Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy at the City University of New York (CUNY SPH) participated in the study.
The data covered by the study published today correspond to the third survey, carried out between the months of June and July 2022 and which are compared with those obtained a year earlier.
Among countries, the study highlights a large difference in vaccine uptake and the need to adapt communication strategies to address vaccination reluctance.
