2024-06-15 23:37:33
“We’ve to proceed making efforts so that individuals shield themselves, as a result of the identical quantity of people that develop into contaminated on the rise of the epidemic curve, get sick on the best way down,” defined Minister Ximena Aguilera.
The Minister of Well being, Ximena Aguilera, assured that the peak of influenza infections within the nationhowever didn’t rule out one other rise in instances throughout the spring.
This was said by the Secretary of State when attending the Well being Fee of the Chamber of Deputies this Tuesday, the place addressed the winter marketing campaignin addition to the state of affairs of respiratory ailments within the nation.
On the event, Aguilera admitted that in 2024 there was a “advance of deaths from influenza“, based on El Mercurio.
Particulars of the figures
Throughout her participation, Minister Aguilera defined that “from the virological standpoint, of care and deaths, we’re seeing that The height would have been between epidemiological week 20 and 21, which corresponds to the week of Could 19 to 25.in the midst of autumn.
He additionally said that 2,424 folks have died within the nation on account of the outbreak, and that In the course of the week of the best peak, the variety of deaths reached 266.
The minister, in any case, clarified that “this doesn’t imply that we can’t see a second peak in spring“.
“That additionally signifies that we have now to proceed making efforts so that individuals shield themselves, as a result of the identical quantity of people that develop into contaminated on the rise of the epidemic curve, get sick on the decline. Subsequently, we have now to insist on vaccination“Aguilera pressured.
Elevated presence of different viruses
For his half, the Undersecretary of Help Networks, Osvaldo Salgado, stated that given the lower in influenza the rise within the presence of different viruses is being detected.
“In abstract, we have now a lowering demand for care, a steady occupancy charge, however there are modifications in age teams“stated Salgado.
“What we hope is that the smaller teams start to improve the demand for care and hospitalizations“added the undersecretary.