The former Deputy Minister of Public Health, Percy Minaya, stressed the importance of strengthening vaccination against COVID-19 and to maintain preventive measures in the event of the detection of a case of the omicron variant in a Peruvian citizen.
“Vaccination is one of the points, and the second has to do with the measures that are being adopted. We do not know if (the variant) could have circulated and be, in some way, responsible for this increase (in cases) that we are seeing in the country “, he pointed to Connection by RPP.
The specialist Percy minaya recalled that until now it is known that omicron it has 50 mutations, “fifteen of them in the peak of the virus, which uses the virus as a hook to establish itself in human cells, it has not been seen before, that gives it more transmissibility.”
Likewise, he indicated that in the country only 55% of people eligible to be immunized already have both doses, while 65% have only one. “That shows us that we still have a significant 35% who could be fully exposed, and 10% who have only one dose and are partially protected,” he said.
“It is a wake-up call for us to reflect, we have not reached the vaccination coverage that could make us think that we are free as a society from the transmission of the virus,” he remarked.
Prevention measures
Thus, Percy minaya emphasized keeping the biosecurity measures such as the continuous washing of hands and use of alcohol, as well as the mask portal to protect us from the transmission of aerosols that could contain the SARS-CoV-2.
In addition, he commented that the measure of social immobilization at Christmas and New Year from 1 to 4 in the morning seems correct, except for the provinces classified as high risk.
“The purpose is to prevent people from moving from place to place and to advance in a broader network of contacts. It is a measure that is good, it is a specific issue and right at this moment in which we know little about how the variant could impact us omicron in the country or how it has spread. “
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