With the increase of Covid-19 cases in AM, Health is preparing for a new wave of the disease

Marcela Leiros – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The Secretary of Health of the Amazon, Anoar Samad, said on Thursday, 10, that the state is preparing for a new wave of Covid-19, with an increase in cases and hospitalizations as a result of the disease in the next 60 to 80 days. He also declared that this will be the third wave only this year.

In the message released, the secretary stated that the increase is occurring in the same period that happened at the end of last year, when flu and coronavirus “ran together”, and stated that the state’s contingency plan has already been updated.

“We have already updated our contingency plan with the certainty that the need for isolation beds and specific cuts for the two conditions will increase and require again a reorganization of the units of our entire health system”, he said.

Cases and vaccination

The Health Surveillance Foundation of Amazonas – Drª Rosemary Costa Pinto (FVS-RCP) informed on Wednesday, 9, that two deaths by Covid-19 and 210 new cases of the disease were registered in 24 hours. With this, there are 14,366 deaths by the virus.

Partial data from the National Immunization Program show that 8,363,605 doses of the vaccine against coronavirus were applied throughout the state until this Wednesday, 9, being 3,329,118 of first dose, 2,804,010 of second dose, 74,145 with single dose, 1,604,129 of 1st booster dose and 552,203 of 2nd booster dose.

Secretary Anoar Samad also raised awareness about the need to be vaccinated against coronavirus and reminded that the best time to be vaccinated against a disease is when it is not circulating with intensity.

“Therefore, I make a new appeal to the entire population: update your vaccination schedule, we have more than a million Amazonians who have not completed their doses. Don’t wait for things to get worse to rush all at once to the vaccination posts as happened last year”, he concluded.