Peru is one of the countries in the world most affected by covid-19 and has registered a sustained increase in cases of this disease since last October, according to official data.
Courtesy | To stop the fifth wave, the authorities insisted on the need to complete the vaccination schedule up to the fourth dose.
The health authorities of Peru confirmed this Thursday that the country entered a fifth wave of covid-19 after the increase in cases registered nationwide in the last three weeks and urged the population to complete the complete scheme of the four doses of the vaccine against this disease.
“There is an increase in hospitalizations and a moderate increase in deaths and (…) the criteria of being able to call this increase a fifth wave is met,” declared the director of the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Disease Control (CDC), Vladimir Munayco. in a press conference.
Given this scenario, the Minister of Health, Kelly Portalatino, announced the agreements reached the day before, and unanimously, by the National Health Council (CNS), which include recommendations on the correct use of the mask in closed spaces or with little ventilation , although at the moment they do not contemplate the obligatory nature of this measure.
“In the next two epidemiological weeks we are going to evaluate and, if the upward curve continues, we are going to make decisions to reassess the obligation to return the masks,” said the head of the portfolio, who assured that her ministry has a plan to contingency to face the new wave of infections.
Portalatino added that the CNS also agreed to redouble efforts to promote vaccination against covid-19 and sanction the promoters of shows that do not comply with the recommendations of the Ministry of Health.
“We urge the population to continue with prevention and protection measures, especially completing vaccination doses in vulnerable people,” remarked the minister, who appealed to “individual responsibility.”
Increase in 24 regions
Peru is one of the countries in the world most affected by covid-19 and has registered a sustained increase in cases of this disease since last October, according to official data.
This increase, according to the experts, is mainly due to the three descendant lineages of the BA.5 variant, which together give 65% of the samples sequenced in recent weeks in the country.
The escalation of infections, they added, was reported in 24 of the 25 regions of the national territory, since the number of cases stabilized in the Amazon region of Loreto, which at the beginning of November increased the number of covid-19 infections six-fold.
vaccination process
To stop the fifth wave, the authorities insisted on the need to complete the vaccination schedule up to the fourth dose.
In this sense, they reported that the country registers an “acceptable level” of application of the first two doses, which have been administered to 90% of the target population, but warned that the inoculation of the third and fourth doses still does not report the ” appropriate levels.
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