The increase in Covid-19 infections in the world and the possibility of the arrival of the new EG.5 ‘Eris’ variant in the country have prompted EsSalud officials to urge people to complete the vaccination program and continue preventive measures to avoid it. Disease strikes.
To complete the population immunization schedule, Health It has established various vaccination points in Lima and other cities for the insured and uninsured population.
Health An extra dose of the coronavirus vaccine has been reported to be the safest and most effective strategy to prevent illness, hospitalization and even death.
Let’s also remember that so-called bivalent vaccines contain two messenger RNA (mRNA) components. Sars-Cove-2: The first is against a virus that emerged in Wuhan in 2019, and the other is a common mRNA component between lineages of omicron variation.
EG.5: A new variant of the coronavirus
A few days ago World Health Organization (WHO)) warned of the emergence of a new variant of Covid-19 known as EG.5 and ‘Eris’, which is already present in 51 countries, including China, the US, Korea, Japan, Canada, Portugal and Spain.
But that’s not all, just cases in the last month Corona virus 80% increase worldwide, which equates to approximately 1.5 million infections.
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