The application has been high to transport companies and transport terminals.
Vaccination brigades advance in the municipalities of the East of Tolima.
Several authorities in the department of Tolima have suggested to companies that are dedicated to the transport of passengers in the region request have displacements from and from the five municipalities that make up the area in which the outbreak of this disease occurs.
This arises as a preventive measure with the purpose of contain the infection figures that have been presented to the East of the department, with a high mortality rate, in municipalities such as Prado, Conday, Villarrica and Purification.
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It is worth mentioning that said guideline It also compromises the municipality of Dolores, where although no cases have been presented Of the disease, it is near the other locations and the forest of Galilee.
“We ask the conveyor companies, first of all, to have the responsibility to inform travelers who go to those municipalities about the outbreak. Second that The yellow fever vaccination license can be requested, this while we all stop This outbreak and save lives in the department of Tolima, “said Miguel Bermúdez, operational director of the Departmental Transit Secretariat.
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According to the latest report by the Department of Departmental Health, In Tolima there have been 29 confirmed cases for yellow fever and 12 deaths for this cause, which represents a high lethality rate
Progress is made in the brigades and in the vaccination days with emphasis on the east of the region, where The Ministry of Health authorized its application in citizens up to 69 years Age In the department are around 50 thousand the biological ones that have been applied.
Source: Integrated information system
