The Minister of Health of the Government of Andalusia, Antonio Sanz, reported this Tuesday that the flu has already exceeded the epidemic level in the community, after cases have increased very significantly in the last seven days. The head of the branch therefore insisted on the importance of vaccination in a “particularly virulent” season.
More precisely, the The rate of influenza illness in Andalusia now stands at 33.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitantscompared to the 10.5 cases recorded last week, which means that it has tripled in just a few days, already exceeding the 20 cases that mark the epidemic threshold.
For the moment, the Council maintains the recommendation to use a mask in community health and social health centersboth public and private, as established in a decree of December 1. Document which also specifies that the centers, depending on the incidence of influenza, can make the use of the mask compulsory, as has already happened in some, as revealed by the advisor.
THE the recommendation will become mandatory in health centers, hospitals or retirement homes where phase II (moderate increase) or III (sustained increase) of the Council’s high attendance plan is reached “repeatedly”, i.e. at least three days in the last seven; or when the primary care incidence rate of the district in which the center is located has exceeded the value of the incidence rate by twice.
The Andalusian Health Service (SAS), explained Sanz, will publish updated monitoring indicators every week on the evolution of acute respiratory diseases to “facilitate coordinated decision-making”.
The advisor insisted on the you must be vaccinated against the flu and covid, because it is “the best prevention tool” that we have”, especially the most vulnerable population. In this sense, he detailed that there are already more than 1.7 million Andalusians who have received the flu vaccine and just over 725,000 have received the booster dose against covid.
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