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With registered cases of reinfection by the new coronavirus in Brazil and new cases of mutations of the virus in Europe, President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) is wrong to say, in recent days, that his immunizer is the fact that he has already been infected. previously.
In São Francisco do Sul (SC), Bolsonaro today again minimized the efficiency of vaccines against covid-19. In conversation with supporters, the president said: “I had the best vaccine: it was the virus.” In previous statements, Bolsonaro already warned that he would not receive the vaccine because he had already contracted the virus.
Last week, Bolsonaro again defended that the immunizer is not mandatory, since it is still “experimental” and criticized the “rush” for the vaccine.
Reinfection in Brazil
On December 10, the Ministry of Health reported that there were at least 58 suspected cases of covid-19 reinfection, and that they are being investigated in nine states. The first reinfection record was detected on the same day. She was a 37-year-old doctor in Rio Grande do Norte.
The scientist responsible for the viral sequencing that confirmed the first case of reinfection, Paola Resende, from Fiocruz (Fundación Oswaldo Cruz), says she believes that it is a patient who did not generate the necessary immunity to escape a new infection in a short time. space of time. .
São Paulo, in turn, confirmed the first case of reinfection on the night of December 16: a 41-year-old woman living in the city of Fernandópolis. He developed the disease in June, with a positive result in laboratory tests.
The woman from the interior of São Paulo was cured and had a new detection of covid-19 in November, 145 days after the first diagnosis. The case presented all the criteria established in a technical note from the Ministry of Health for the confirmation of reinfection.
Mutations
Mutations in viruses are extremely common and occur due to the widespread spread of the disease. There are European studies that point to more than 4,000 changes already registered in the new coronavirus.
However, these two variations located in the United Kingdom and South Africa seem to have a higher transmission speed, although it is not yet known if there is greater lethality.
The United Kingdom saw a significant increase in infections after a stable period in late November. In the past week, the country has tallied nearly 225,000 infections, the highest number in seven days since the pandemic began.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the country registered 2,116,609 million cases of the coronavirus and 68,412 deaths.
Today, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that the UK has detected another new variant of the coronavirus. According to him, both cases are of infected people who have traveled to South Africa in recent weeks.
The government has announced restrictions on all flights arriving from South Africa, as the United Kingdom itself has been facing other countries after having identified a first variant of the coronavirus, with a 70% greater transmission capacity.
Some countries, such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, have reduced restrictions for travelers from British territories. Germany and others maintained the measures until January 6.
