Colombia is entering a new peak of infections of covid-19 by the omicron variant, alerted the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, who said that the health authorities take a series of measures and recommendations to address the situation.
“Genomic diagnosis is a matter of days, but we have to take a series of measures and recommendations especially to be able to address this new variant in the country and its affectation.“Ruiz said, quoted in a statement.
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The minister assured that the factors that allow them to affirm that the probability that the country is entering a new peak are the epidemiological conditions, the reports of the health services and the ca clinical chart of those who go to hospitals to be served by covid-19.
Precisely on Tuesday, December 28, Colombia added 4,306 positive cases of covid-19, the highest number since August 11, when it reported 5,368, a sign that the pandemic is on the rise again after a prolonged period of short.
With Tuesday’s cases, the country accumulates 5’132.277 infections since the first infection was registered on March 6, 2020.
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Although infections are increasing, the number of fatalities remains at the average of recent weeks and the country registered 35 deaths this Tuesday, for a total of 129,833 deaths from the pandemic.
Along these lines, Ruiz recalled that omicron is characterized by its contagion level is between five and ten times greater than the delta variant, which has caused very rapid peaks and accelerated growth in other countries of the world.
“This is a matter of days or very few weeks when countries have been presenting this new peak“, stressed the minister and added:”We believe that we are at the entrance of the peak generated by omicron“.
The omicron variant was detected in Colombia on December 20.
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VACCINATION, THE BEST DEFENSE
Although there is no certainty about what may happen in this new peak, the Ministry of Health stressed that Colombia has a high level of protection thanks to vaccination and hybrid immunity, which is given by the prevalence of the virus in people and also for the serums against covid-19.
63.7 million doses of vaccines have been applied in the country.
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According to the Ministry of Health, on Sunday 32,260 vaccines against covid-19 were applied, of which 14,685 correspond to second doses and 1,389 to the single-dose formula of the pharmaceutical company Janssen.
With these data, in Colombia 63.7 million doses of vaccines have been applied and 27.8 million people have their complete scheme, while 3,000,665 people have already received the booster dose.
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In this context, Ruiz assured that the end of the year festivities are the time of “more interactions“, so he called on citizens to”be very responsible“because Bogotá, Cali and Medellín already have a hinted peak.
“So here the call to the people is to have moderation in the crowds, to use the mask and especially the reinforcement in the vaccination“, he pointed.
EFE
