The health authorities specified that in the first days of November the number of cases exceeded 95,000.
In the preview of a new summer season, Brazil will re-impose from next Friday the use of chinstraps in airports and planes due to the increase in coronavirus infections, according to a new order imposed by the health authorities.
The use of masks in the neighboring country, one of the main destinations chosen by Argentines to vacationhad ceased to be mandatory last August, but the epidemiological situation caused them to have to review the measure.
As indicated by the National Agency for Sanitary Surveillance (Anvisa) in a statement, the chinstrap will once more be mandatory in airports and planes due to “current epidemiological data, which indicate a increase in the number of cases“.
The decision was made this Tuesday following a meeting with experts in which representatives of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, the National Council of Health Secretaries, the National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the Brazilian Association participated. of Collective Health.
Brazil was one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the worldaccumulating so far almost 690,000 deaths and more than 35 million infections.
According to the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass), in the In the first 20 days of November, the number of infections exceeded 95,000with a 292% increase in relation to the previous month.
Meanwhile, the number of deaths did not increase at the same rate, but remained at an average of 45 per day in the last two weeks.
The increase in cases was attributed by scientific institutions to a relaxation of vaccination in recent months.
Can the same thing happen in Argentina?
Regarding the rise in cases and the measure adopted by the Brazilian health authorities, Lautaro de Vedia, an infectologist at Hospital Muñiz, assures that “we must always look at what is happening in neighboring countries and that he does not rule out that an increase in cases there may have repercussions in Argentina“.
“The important is that does not translate into more serious cases and more deaths. The only way to guarantee that this does not happen is through vaccination,” warns De Vedia, former president of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases (SADI).
And he says that everything indicates that “we are going to have to live with Covid for a long time, as we do with the flu.”
“The use of a chinstrap on planes and airports is not bad if the cases increased in that country, although the reality is that the difference is made by vaccination and not by the mask”, he contributes and maintains that we must insist on this point.
In this same line, he assures that, as a consequence of the good levels of vaccination, today at the Muñiz Hospital they do not have no patients hospitalized for coronavirus.
Regarding vaccines, according to official data from Brazil, of the total of 213 million Brazilians, so far only 49.2% have the full vaccination schedule. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro boasts of not having been vaccinated and was one of the main voices in Brazil once morest immunization.
