The Scientific Committee of the Northeast Consortium recommended this Friday (3) the ban on New Year’s Eve and Carnival parties in the region due to the Ômicron variant. According to the entity’s bulletin, the end of the year festivities and revelry can generate agglomerations that would intensify the transmission of the virus and would result in a new wave of Covid-19.
The document cites the current global and national picture of the pandemic and “existing future uncertainties” and also recommends intensifying vaccination through the active search for people who have not completed the vaccination schedule, expanding the pace of immunization through strategies such as sound car and application of doses in schools and maintaining the mandatory use of face masks.
The committee also defends collective protection measures such as the requirement of a vaccine passport for entry into cinemas, theaters, football stadiums and others.
“These new variants may not only be more transmissible and more pathogenic, but also evade the immunity produced by vaccines. It is not by chance that the recent identification of a new variant in South Africa, called Ômicron, is generating such tension and expectations among politicians, managers and specialists”, highlighted the bulletin.
This Friday (3), the first case of the new strain of the virus in Rio Grande do Sul was confirmed. Altogether, there are six confirmed cases of Ômicron in Brazil.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has registered 22,129,409 infections and 615,400 deaths from the coronavirus. Fiocruz’s InfoGripe bulletin, released on Thursday (2), indicated that 13 of the 27 states have signs of growth in cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
*with information from Agência Brasil
Reference: CNN Brasil
