The fifth dose of Covid-19 vaccine is available in the following states:
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- São Paulo
- Rio de Janeiro
- Amazon
- Pernambuco
- Espírito Santo
- Paraná
- Rio Grande do Norte
- Acre
Three other capitals offer immunization: Belo Horizonte (MG), Salvador (BA) and Aracaju (SE).
In the Central-West region, the city of Anápolis, in Goiás, also offers the additional dose against the coronavirus.
The arrival of BQ.1, a subvariant of omicron, has caused an increase in cases again in the country and raises concern among health professionals, mainly due to the delay in vaccination in children aged 6 months to 3 years:
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Return to the use of masks?
Given the increase in Covid cases, the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases recommends that the use of masks be adopted again, as well as social distancing.
In São Paulo, the Secretary of Science, Research and Development in Health, David Uip, issued an alert on Thursday (10) recommending the return to mask use in places of high risk and vulnerable people, such as the elderly and immunosuppressed. (Folha de S.Paulo). But for use to become mandatory again, a government decree is needed, which, so far it has been discarded by the São Paulo government.
Even though it is not mandatory, universities such as USP and Unicamp are already returning to the use of masks and social distancing.
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O Coronavirus Contingency Scientific Committee at Unicamp identified an increase in the number of people with respiratory symptoms and positive diagnostic tests for covid-19 in the last two weeks at the university, which would justify the resumption of protocols. (Brazil Agency)
Rio de Janeiro has an increase in cases
This week, the city of Rio de Janeiro recorded around 2 cases of Covid-19 per day, and hospitalizations resulting from the disease more than tripled in four days. The information was given by the municipal secretary of Health, Daniel Soranz, this Friday (11), according to Agência Brasil.
According to him, the city has 286 health units responsible for diagnostic tests, which reached 10 in a single day. The positivity rate, which was 6% in the second week of October, jumped to 29% this week.
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