- The covid-19 pandemic continues in the country amid the advance of the omicron variant. Despite this, different spaces have made their biosecurity measures more flexible. Venezuelan experts in the health area pointed out that awareness should be raised regarding vaccination, distancing and hand washing | Photo: EFE.
The covid-19 pandemic is not over, however, different countries in the world, such as Spain, are studying alternatives to coexist in “the new reality”. “Flu” is a term used to describe the act of treating the virus as if it were a common flu. Venezuela has not taken the step, but now the experts in the health area speak out once morest the measure.
Dr. Huniades Urbina Medina, Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, commented that covid-19 should not be “cold” because the virus can leave cardiac or neurological problems in the body. Instead, the expert insisted on continuing to increase the vaccination plan and biosecurity measures among the population.
“It is regarding normalizing a situation that is not regular. Water, electricity, gasoline have been normalized and you have to queue. The same has happened in the pandemic. We must continue to insist and reinforce information. No flu leaves you with a cardiac or neurological problem,” Urbina told the radio station Circuito Éxitos on April 1.
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Having omicron is not having a common flu
What’s more, Huniades Urbina He added that, despite the fact that the omicron variant of covid-19 presents mild symptoms in the acute phase, post-covid syndrome is beginning to appear in Venezuelan patients. “People trivialized it (having an omicron variant). They say they don’t go to the doctor because it must be the flu. Everything that looks like covid-19 during the pandemic must be said until proven otherwise, “the doctor completed.
To date, the doctor asserts that the contagion continues to occur among citizens, but it has become normalized as “having the flu”, so they do not go to the consultation, but people who have pre-existing pathologies or are in a critical situation, can run the risk of complications.
Until March 31, the country registered 124 cases of covid-19, one deceased, for a total of 520,497 cases and 5,683 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Urbina points out that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) only reports 50% of people vaccinated with two doses in Venezuela, for which he urges the National Executive to reinforce the vaccination plan to exceed 80% and 90%.
Vaccination with covid-19 is necessary
“If we do not continue to comply with the distancing measures, hand washing, general measures, we will fall back into the upticks, which we have been seeing in other cities,” Urbina told journalist Roman Lozinski. The doctor indicated that in order to return to daily activities, the population must be vaccinated.
Urbina underlines that Venezuela continues to be one of the countries with the lowest number of people immunized with the complete scheme. Despite the fact that the Venezuelan State has sought ways to massify the vaccination plan, and even reduce the time from six to four months to receive the booster dose, the percentage to achieve “herd immunity” has not been exceeded.
In fact, recently the National Academy of Medicine He also said that the decision to reduce the time to receive the third vaccine is not “convenient”, alleging that it is not approved by the international scientific community, he told Momentum the president of the academic health entity, Dr. Enrique López Loyo.
How is the “flu” of the pandemic advancing in the world?
Spain March ended with the implementation of the “flu” of the pandemic. The measure that hoped to be a solution in reducing cases, began with an increase in infected people, according to the Ministry of Health. For the director of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Andrea Ammon, the pandemic is not over.
Ammon urges caution once morest “flu” because endemic diseases can also be dangerous and serious. Other countries, such as Colombia, have chosen not to treat covid 19 as a common flu, but rather have relaxed measures, such as stopping wearing face masks in open spaces. However, scientists and doctors point out that measures like this must be followed up and there must be a plan so that there is no regrowth.
Thus, for experts in the area of health in Venezuela, the pandemic is advancing and the reactivation of activities with partial compliance with the measures among society, amid deficiencies in the public services necessary for cleanliness and compliance with the hand washing, such as water, for example, which prevents the country from getting closer to ending the covid-19 pandemic.
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