At the moment, more than a dozen cases of omicron have been detected in the neighboring country, just one day after identifying the first ones, according to authorities.
The Minister of Health of Peru, Hernando Cevallos, confirmed this monday that already 12 cases of the omicron variant have been detected of the covid-19 in Lima and announced that the authorities decided to advance the application of the third booster dose after three months throughout the country.
“There are already 12 cases of this variant detected in Lima, in various districts”Declared the minister, just one day after the first four cases of omicron.
Cevallos said that the infected “they are stable at the moment“, They are quarantined in their homes and”some yes, others no, they counted”With vaccines against covid-19.
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On Sunday, the minister had reported that the first cases of the variant had been detected in a anthropologist who came to the country from South Africa; her two children, ages 9 and 5, and a health worker.
Experts from the Ministry of Health point out that, so far, the variant predominant in the country is the delta, which last week reached 98% of all cases detected.
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Faced with the detection of more infected with the omicron variant, Cevallos reported this Monday that new measures will be taken and sanitary restrictions and said that it is necessary to increase the percentage of vaccinated with two doses, which currently reaches 74% of the target population.
“We need to exceed this figure, in front of the omicron it is absolutely insufficient,” he said before indicating that this variant “produces an immune leak“By eluding” the effectiveness of vaccines “and is much more contagious, since it can also infect people who have been vaccinated.
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Despite this, the minister remarked that “it should be very clear that vaccines continue to be effective “and that in the case of omicron” they allow to avoid up to 90% the lethality “of the coronavirus.
Cevallos announced that, for this reason, it has been decided to advance the application in the country of the third booster dose of the covid-19 vaccine for all people, from the age of 18, who have completed three months since they received the second.
“This is done, in the first place, because it has already been demonstrated; there are several countries, such as England and others, that are applying it, it is absolutely safe, there is no problem, “he said.
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He argued that it is also proven that people who have received a third dose have up to a 75% protection before the contagion with these variants.
The minister said that his office will also raise a “technical position”To reduce the capacity in the country’s establishments, although this measure must be endorsed by the Council of Ministers.
“In most of us we had expanded to 80%, this will be reduced to 60%, at least,” he explained before noting that the beginning of the is ordered for December 24 and 31 Next it will be brought forward from 01:00 to 23:00.
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In addition, restrictions will be maintained for the Entrance to the country of people residing in nations such as South Africa, while Peruvians arriving from those zonas must show two vaccinations and a molecular test no more than 48 hours old.
In turn, the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Diseases (CDC) launched an alert pfor all health establishments of the country in which he pointed out that for the end of the year holidays “the risk of transmission is extremely high.”
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In Peru they were detected in the last hours 954 cases and another 18 people died from covid-19, bringing the country to a total of 202,225 deaths and 2,265,320 confirmed cases, of which 2,913 are hospitalized, 939 of them in intensive care units (ICU).
Minister Cevallos participated this Monday in the presentation, in the Chorrillos district of Lima, of mobile hospitals destined for attend emergencies and disasters, and supervised the start of a vaccination campaign for Minsa brigades in thousands of homes in the southern district of Villa El Salvador. (I)
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