We had 2,600 dengue cases in one day in the city. There have been 82,000 people infected with dengue fever and seven deaths so far. It was a very worrying moment, but the number of cases has gone down a lot. Today, we have fewer than 500 cases a day across the capital. We have already had 600 hospital admissions; Today there are 34 beds occupied with dengue cases.
The number of influenza cases now exceeds the number of dengue fever cases. With the end of the dengue emergency, we have already begun to focus all efforts on the disease, which has begun to dominate the epidemiological scenario. Influenza is the disease that kills the most people in Brazil and causes the highest number of hospitalizations. Beware of vaccination against the disease, which has begun to worry us with the advent of autumn and the approach of winter. Daniel Soranz, Minister of Health of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro
Sorans explained that with the significant decrease in infection cases Dengue fever In Rio de Janeiro, places that previously treated these patients will vaccinate residents against influenza.
It is important that we continue efforts to eliminate Aedes aegypti mosquito outbreaks, but we also need to know that it is important for people to get vaccinated against influenza. It is unlikely that we will see another spike in dengue fever in Rio. The number of cases has decreased very quickly.
This gives us a lot of security to close the service centers and turn them into influenza vaccination points and gradually replace the dengue beds with influenza. Daniel Soranz, Minister of Health of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro
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