For asymptomatic patients.
Brazil, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, is studying reducing the isolation period for asymptomatic patients with covid-19 from ten to five days, as announced this Friday by the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga.
Brazil is, along with the United States and India, one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with 22.3 million infected and about 620,000 deaths.
The minister said that the matter is under study by the technical area of the portfolio and that today he will meet with the secretaries of Health of the 27 Brazilian states to discuss the measure, already in force in the United States and other countries.
He also recognized the need to increase the distribution of tests, at a time when the omicron variant of the coronavirus is expanding rapidly throughout the country, although he stressed that the responsibility is not only of the federal government, but also of local administrations and regional.
“We have to prepare for more serious scenarios. We still do not know what the potential of this variant (omicron) is. We will have to wait three or four weeks to know its lethality potential,” he said.
In this context, he pointed out that he is “very concerned” about the northern region of the country because there the vaccination coverage “is lower” and historically its health system is more fragile, compared to that of other richer areas, such as Sao Paulo.
Therefore, he said that it is important to devise a “consistent contingency plan” so that states and municipalities can “respond” to a new explosion of covid-19 cases and advocated “accelerating” the booster dose of the vaccine in the priority groups.
In the last month there has also been a data “blackout” apparently caused by a computer attack on the Ministry of Health systems that is making it difficult to know exactly the evolution of the pandemic in the country, which all indicates that it is back speeding up.
On the eve, the country registered the first death associated with the omicron variant, first detected in South Africa last November and already dominant in many countries around the world, including Brazil. (I)
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