Given the increase in coronavirus infections in Argentina, the Minister of Health Carla Vizzotti warned that “the pandemic is not over yet” and urged the population to apply the booster vaccine as a preventive and care measure.
“There is an increase in cases of influenza and other respiratory infections. We have to sustain care.” Vizzotti said in communication with AM750. In that sense, the official expressed that the vaccine is the “most important” tool available to fight the coronavirus.
“In Argentina there are 3 million people over 50 years of age who have not yet been vaccinated with the third dose. The cases are going to increase and we have to stimulate vaccination so that there are no more deaths “he explained.
anti-vaccine
The minister denounced that there are many people who still do not want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus due to misinformation or the delegitimization campaign that was carried out on the policies that the government adopted for prevention and health care.
“What complicates the vaccination campaign is that there are people who do not want to be vaccinated or who report poisoning to the Government”Vizzotti said and asked to leave health issues out of the electoral dispute.
Government policies to contain the pandemic
In the interview, Vizzotti highlighted the management of the Frente de Todos government in the face of “the worst humanitarian crisis of the century, the Coronavirus pandemic. “The Argentine health system was strengthened in record time. We gave answers in the two waves of coronavirus and no Argentine was left without a hospital bed,” he said.
“Argentina did not have a wave of the Delta variant because we managed to delay entry and we managed to vaccinate those who were at higher risk. The variant Òmicron found us with a very advanced vaccination campaign,” added the official.
Health System Integration
In any case, the minister said that the pandemic showed the need to continue strengthening the health system and advanced “there is a very large consensus” to begin discussing its integration.
“The pandemic exacerbated the situation of fragmentation of the Health system that dates back much earlier. There is a very large consensus and we are in the last stretch of Health Integration”he indicated.