The Ministry of Health reiterated this Friday that the country currently has a peak in acute respiratory infections (ARI) and serious infections (SARI) in the country, which includes the covid-19 disease.
More than 21 respiratory viruses normally circulate in the country, but their incidence in the population increases at this time due to the rains that occur in the country.
However, the national public health authority also confirmed that the country has low community transmission behavior for covid-19.
The director of Epidemiology and Demography of the Ministry of Health, Claudia Cuéllar, warned that, despite this favorable panorama in which the accumulated positivity of Covid-19 is 2.0, the population must be careful when any type of respiratory infection occurs.
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“At this time that we see a decrease in covid, it is important to highlight that we are in the first respiratory epidemiological peak,” stressed the director of epidemiology.
Regarding the coronavirus, which still keeps the world on alert, he indicated that the prevalence continues to be omicron with 71.90%; while the BA.1 sublineages are at 14.38%, BA.2 at 12.75% and delta at 0.97%.
Finally, from Bogotá in the development of the 130 Unified Command Post COVID-19 Attention, the health authority urged the population to start or complete vaccination against coronavirus as well as other diseases such as influenza.