President Petro will decree economic and health emergency for yellow fever

President Gustavo Petro He announced in his X account that he will decree economic and health emergency in the country because of yellow fever.

“I will decree the economic emergency, after the health. But not for what the smuggers, washing machines and oil companies say, who are those who have been dominating Colombia’s economic policy, but for something simple and forceful: life. We are again before a virus. This is the yellow fever virus unleashed by the female mosquito called Aedes aegypti“He said.

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“Our disadvantages have to do with the climatic crisis. The increasing heat of the atmosphere now causes the mosquito to climb the mountains, pass the moors and can penetrate the cities, including Bogotá. The mosquito in a city is more dangerous than in a jungle because the number of people who can be infected by population density is triggered“Petro added.

The president said that such disease “It has a 50%mortality. Of 74 human cases discovered 32 people have died, most in Tolima. The first alert is that dead monkeys began to appear in the coffee zone, the monkeys are not to blame, they spread like us and do not transmit the disease, only the female mosquito”

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Taking into account that the country is already in the days of Holy Week, the president gave the example of the municipality of Melgar, in Tolima, and asked for prudence.

“[…] Tourism in Melgar should only be for vaccinated people. 200,000 people have already been vaccinated in Tolima for our work, together with the basic health teams and their public hospitals. Holy Week tourism can take mosquitoes to Bogotá and big cities“Petro said.

On the contagios, the Ministry of Health has indicated that the areas of Yellow fever transmission are between 0 and 1,500 meters above sea level, although climate change can extend the risk up to 1,800 meters.

With cut at the beginning of April, They had applied 17,566 doses of the vaccine in the prioritized municipalities and within the epidemiological siege. As part of this strategy, vaccination coverage in these territories was expanded, including children from 9 months of age already adults over 60 years.

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Petro holds the Tolima and Bogotá from the emergency

“The Governor of Tolima has not helped us, and has not turned money from the Government to help stop the virus. But the mayors and managers of hospitals and the intervened EPS and the private ones have helped thoroughly“The president said.

In the case of Bogotá, the Galán Administration also fell into the president’s polish: “I worry that in Bogotá the district has not wanted to configure the basic health teams They are essential to make rapid vaccination throughout the city. The speed of the vaccine is the key“

“Vaccinated people can reject the disease successfully. For more than 15 years we got a preventive system and childhood vaccination was extended. They should check if they were vaccinated against yellow fever“Petro said.

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The INS reported that, at present, there is a situation with occurrence in the rural area of ​​the adjacent sidewalks in the southern area of ​​the Forest Forest Regional Park of Galilee, which covers parts of the municipalities of Canday, Prado, Villarrica and Purification, in Tolimaas time registered.

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The cases of infections began in October 2024.

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