In interview at 6AM Today through Today Germán Escobar, Deputy Minister (in charge) of Public Health and Provision of Services spoke about the variant omicron, the possibility of increasing infections and difficult weeks due to the virus.
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The official clarified that “We had been having a linear increase in cases, but this Wednesday, January 5, we saw a more pronounced increase. It is necessary to wait how are we doing these days with the figures of contagions to see if this means a marked increase in the curve as in European countries. What is true is what the president said is that we are going to have three or four weeks a significant increase in cases ”.
“Fortunately the severity of this omicron variant is much less than the others. But nevertheless, the challenges we face are not minor, but different. One of the most important challenges is that the installed capacity of the gateway to the services that citizens enter for the first time may have sufficiency and availability. Lhe strategy with the territories is to be able to temporarily expand services ”indicated Escobar.
On the other hand, he mentioned that “there are several factors, one is the vaccination and it is necessary to complete the schedules. There are more than 3.8 vaccines available throughout the national territory, so a very urgent call for citizens to be vaccinated ”.
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¿CWhen to go for priority care?
The official clarified that people must recognize when to go for priority care. “We have to be very responsible, omicron has symptoms very similar to a cold, headache, fever, malaise, nasal congestion, and cough. Those symptoms are as expected, if they develop into shortness of breath, fever that does not give in to medications, and very pronounced malaise that prevents the person from doing basic activities such as eating or bathing, if these symptoms appear, people should request either by home consultation or access to an emergency service. “
“We hope that there will be an increase that will be exponential, We believe that there will be a significant increase in the coming weeks. Is difficult to estimate exactly how much it will be, which may be as the president said of 40,000 cases. But the models are adjusted every week, “he clarified.
However, before the return of the holidays and the relationship with infections, he indicated that, “It is an issue that we are monitoring. There are two groups of people, some who could have been exposed to the virus in the regions and would already bring immunity and another group that we hope will be smaller, who will indeed have a contagion in the city or when returning from a trip ”.