Brazil confirms two cases of the variant in the Amazon region

Brazil confirms two cases of the variant in the Amazon region

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One case occurred in the state of Amapabordering French Guiana and Suriname, and the second in the state of For, which borders Suriname and Guyana. The minister assured that it is necessary to take “tranquility to the population”.

In this framework, he affirmed that it is necessary to redouble the call for people to administer the third dose or booster dose to face new variants. The incident occurs within the framework of a wave of the Omicron variant present since the end of December that caused a record number of infections in Januaryalthough the figures began to drop from February 11.

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Omicron variant.

Currently, Brazil has 73.5% of its population, 157.9 million, fully immunized and 32.5% with the third dose, that is, 69.9 million people. On the other hand, since the start of the pandemic, 655,249 people and counted more than 29 million infections.

The country is in a phase of relaxation of the use of the chinstrap as a result of the decrease in cases and hospitalizations generated by Ómicron, which forced -for example- suspend the carnival celebrations in the main cities.

Source: Ambito

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