Even with the end of the year holidays, cases of covid-19 in the city of Rio de Janeiro have been on a downward trend since the end of November and have remained at less than 300 new cases per day in the moving average since Christmas. According to the municipal secretary of Health, Daniel Soranz, the international scenario is favorable, despite the increase registered in China in recent weeks, with the withdrawal of restrictive measures in the Asian country imposed since the beginning of 2020. what’s happening in China, they didn’t do the booster dose, which is essential to maintain the level of protection. It is a time when people meet more, it is a festive moment and vaccinated and protected people are much less likely to be hospitalized for covid-19 or have any type of more serious situation ”. According to Soranz, the peak seen in January this year, which reached more than 20,000 cases per day in the city, should not be repeated now, thanks to vaccination, which also prevented the number of deaths from being higher. “Today we have an epidemiological scenario that is very different from all other periods. In the year 2022, we had three waves, one at the beginning of the year with the Ômicron variant and then two other smaller waves [em junho e em novembro]. At the moment, we have less than 30 people hospitalized with covid-19 in the city and the epidemiological scenario is very favorable. But that doesn’t mean we can relax, the vaccine protects, the vaccine prevents serious cases “. The secretary recalled that vaccine protection falls throughout the year. For this reason, according to the secretary, who participated in the federal government’s transition team, talks are underway for the vaccine against covid-19 to enter the annual immunization schedule, along with flu vaccines. “The new minister, president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade, was part, along with me, of the transitional government, and our expectation is to be able, right at the beginning of the year, to vaccinate people with the bivalent vaccine and, mainly, to expand the range coverage for children under 5 years of age. unfortunately, today we do not have a vaccine available for them. The expectation is to vaccinate people who took the fourth dose more than 12 months ago. We expect the covid vaccine to enter the calendar along with the flu vaccine.” Vaccination against covid-19 for young children without comorbidity is under discussion at the Ministry of Health. Soranz also highlighted the importance of parents taking their children to complete the basic childhood vaccination schedule, since the year had very low coverage against diseases already eradicated in the country, such as polio. According to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro did not reach the vaccination target of the National Immunization Program for preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis C, hepatitis A, hepatitis B. Centro de Infectologia Valda do Borel The secretary spoke to the press during the inauguration of the Center Specialized in Infectious Diseases Valda do Borel, inside the Policlínica Hélio Pellegrino, in Praça da Bandeira, in Tijuca, in the north zone of the city. The unit is going to offer consultations and exams for patients with tuberculosis, hepatitis, HIV and other specialties, with capacity for 2,500 people. The center’s main focus will be on caring for patients living with HIV. The name is a tribute to the activist from Morro do Borel who has worked, since the 1990s, in community projects on sexual and reproductive health, with work in the area of prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Mayor Eduardo Paes recalled that basic health care, with the Family Clinics, allowed the inclusion of many people in the Unified Health System (SUS). Now, the goal is to offer medical specialties for the most complex cases. “We know that there are a large number of people – 25 thousand in the city – with the AIDS virus, which is a disease that today you can treat and the person will have a normal life. But you need this service. So, here is a center specialized in infectology, with this focus on AIDS, with treatments for people with AIDS, a place specialized in this. We have already opened the Super Centro Carioca and we will continue to open specialty centers in all cities.” The city hall also launched the HIV/AIDS Epidemiological Bulletin in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which gathers data from five information systems and presents an overview of the disease in the city, with information on cases in the city’s regions and life cycles, in addition to of prevention strategies.
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