According to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, the victims are two elderly people who died on August 1 and 2, but since January there have been 125 cases, 89 of them in July.
He urged the population to take extreme care of their health and look after the elderly, who are the most vulnerable to contracting this disease, which between 2020 and 2021 left more than 100 deaths in the Caribbean country.
The resurgence of Covid-19 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines occurs at the same time as the outbreak of dengue fever that has left at least 119 cases in recent weeks.
The Ministry of Health has decided to increase surveillance and tracking of mosquito breeding sites, provide epidemiological work with the necessary equipment and additional workers, and increase the frequency of fumigations throughout the country.
The company hired a private company to strengthen vector control and eliminate outbreaks in the south of the country, which is the most complicated area during the current outbreak.
But overall, the Government will develop an educational campaign to inform the population about the symptoms of the disease, preventive measures, who is most vulnerable and what to do if they contract it.
Likewise, the evolution of dengue fever will be monitored at a regional and international level and then it will proceed according to how the situation develops, since projections point to a continued increase in the number of patients because the Aedes aegypti mosquito circulates widely throughout the country.
He also does not rule out the possibility that there are people suffering from Zika and Chikungunya, two other diseases caused by the insect.
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