Nuevitas, September 3.- Nuevitas has the ninth highest incidence rate of the municipalities in the province of Camagüey with an Aedes aegypti mosquito infestation index of 0.44%. However, raising the perception of risk and hygiene are necessary actions to dengue control.
Lídice Rodríguez Serrú, director of the Municipal Center of the Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Microbiology in the town, specified that higher transmission is reported by Santa Cruz del Sur, Esmeralda, Florida, Céspedes, Guáimaro, Florida and Najasa, but we must remain alert because All four serotypes circulate in the territory of Camagüey, of which the last two can be fatal.
“People can be infected up to four times because the infestation with each of them is different.
The patient must go to the emergency room, either to the Martin Chang Puga teaching hospital or the Francisco Peña Peña polyclinic, or to the office with extended hours in the popular councils of Santa Lucía, Camalote, and San Miguel to detect warning signs in time. And with the new health protocol, depending on the serotype and the clinical picture that it presents, an admission is indicated, either hospital (mainly for those under two years of age, pregnant women, older adults with morbidities) or home”.
By the end of this week 33, a total of 84 IGM were performed (detects antibodies that would be indicative of recent infection), of which 40 were positive for reactivity of 47.62.
The infested councils, 12 belong to the Historic Center, ten to Number One-Tarafa-Pastelill¬o, six to Santa Lucía, five to Los Micros, three to Camalote and the Industrial Zone, as well as one that cannot be located because the address reported in the guard corps does not correspond to the residence.
COVID-19 PRESENT IN NUEVITAS
Regarding the new coronavirus, the specialist commented that there are nine active cases, eight of them belonging to the Francisco Peña Peña de Nuevitas Polyclinic health area and one to the Tenth Anniversary of Camalote, which were sent to the provincial capital, and reported a rate incidence of 14.96 per 100 thousand inhabitants.
“Most of the population is vaccinated and they can pass the disease as a respiratory symptom, but this is not the case in children under two years of age who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as pregnant women who in the time of gestation depress their immune levels, and adults over 65 who have associated pathologies, and similarly, those who may be in critical condition.
In this way, those infected with SARS-CoV-2 are seven infants, a local over 65 years of age and a pregnant woman, three residents of Los Micros, and Zona Industrial y Número Uno-Tarafa-Pastelillo, two in each case.
The call of the health authorities is to eliminate the social indiscipline that gives way to the proliferation of diseases such as dengue and COVID-19 that threaten the well-being of Nuevitas society.
