The future Brazilian government of President-elect Lula da Silva plans to launch a vaccination campaign against Covid 19 in the midst of an exacerbation of the disease whose mortality rate exceeded 100% In the last week.
Vice President Elect, Gerald Alckminhe highlighted “the importance of prevention, of vaccines. We have come to the conclusion that the most immediate attitude that the government should adopt in the early days is immunization through a large national campaign”.
According to the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) and the Fiocruz Institute in the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, stopped sending vaccines in “sufficient quantity” to the states.
Vaccine for minors
According to these organizations, the current government nor was an “awareness campaign” conducted. of the importance of vaccinating minors and only the 12% of children up to 6 years.
In this sense, Alckmin said that starting in January there will be a “campaign of conviction” in favor of vaccination in which artists and personalities will participate.
This Sunday 18 people died from coronavirus and the total has been reached 690,231 deadwith an average of 96 cases per day in the last week, an increase of 111% compared to the figure 14 days ago
Was there on Sunday too 8,693 new infectedthe accumulated rose to 35,408,852 and the average was 28,167 per day in the last week with an increase of 88% compared to the numbers of 2 weeks ago, according to Conass.
Chinstrap at airports
Rising covid cases led Brazilian authorities to reimpose the use of chin straps at airports and on planes in late November.
The use of masks ceased to be mandatory last August, but was re-imposed due to “current epidemiological data, which indicate an increase in the number of covid-19 cases in the Brazilian population,” according to an agency statement. for Health Supervision (Anvisa) published on Tuesday evening.
The most affected countries
The coronavirus, far from subsiding, continues to generate infections in various countries of the world, with a total of 645,231,967 cases.
The country with the highest number of cases is the United States, with 98,972,375. India follows with 44,674,616; France with 38,174,893; Germany with 36,557,861; Brazil with 35,337,546; Republic of Korea with 27,331,250; Japan with 25,242,594; Italy with 24,488,080 and United Kingdom with 24,251,661.
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