Argentina has reported for more than 11 consecutive weeks a decrease in infections and deaths from coronavirusthanks to advances in vaccination, which also makes it possible to make some health measures more flexible.
However, as the Minister of Health of the City of Buenos Aires, Fernán Quirós, warned a few days ago, the pandemic is not gone yet and the country could once again experience a new wave of coronavirus.
For this reason, it is essential to maintain health care, such as the use of the chinstrap, which is already optional in some spaces, mainly outdoors, because although reduced, the risk of contagion of coronavirus keep going.
Also, the best way to avoid new cases of the virus is to keep the entire population vaccinated, about which The minister explained that more reinforcements will be administered in the future.
This, as a consequence of the new variants, which are usually more resistant to the biological, for which a reinforcement will be necessary at least once a year, as Quirós anticipated.
Although for now the Government has not provided details of what the process would be like, it is most likely that the population at risk will have priority to receive the booster, which can currently opt for the fourth dose.
The second reinforcement is administered, for now, in health professionals, teachers, military forces, people with autoimmune problems, among others. To receive the fourth dose, 4 months must have elapsed since the first booster.
Likewise, the administration of this dose will be done by shift assignment, in all the City’s vaccination clinics, where the citizen must go with their ID and vaccination card.
How many cases of coronavirus are there in CABA
According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, Argentina added 8,387 cases of Covid-19 during this weekas well as 146 deaths, figures that had not been seen since the start of the pandemic.
Of these cases, 120 infections are reported in CABA, however, the City has not registered deceased persons again, which means that the virus could be more controlled.
