The Ministry of Health reported that confirmed and probable cases of chikungunya amount to 44,649, 49.5% of notifications, totaling 90,074. Confirmed dengue cases only reach 791.
There are 51 deaths from chikungunya, of which 11 are under one year of age and 32 people over 60 years of age, with a predominance of males.
The director of Health Surveillance, Guillermo Sequera, said that few countries had the chikungunya epidemic that Paraguay is experiencing, but that mortality is within 0.1% of the global fatality rate.
📌 Alert! The wave of chikungunya moves towards the interior of the country.
🔸 The disease adds up to 51 deaths, more than 500 affected babies and 44,649 cases.#NPY pic.twitter.com/tveLGzL0ky
— NPY Oficial (@npyoficial) March 17, 2023
