Secretary Wanderson de Oliveira, from the Ministry of Health, resigns | Coronavirus

Wanderson’s departure comes amid the coronavirus pandemic. He was one of the ministry officials who participated most in the ministry’s interviews and actions to combat the virus.

Wanderson, like Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, is an advocate of social isolation as a strategy to contain the virus.

At the Ministry of Health for 15 years, he coordinated the national response to the influenza pandemic and congenital Zika syndrome.

In the secretariat, Wanderson is responsible for the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases in Brazil, for the surveillance of risk factors for the development of chronic non-communicable diseases, for environmental and worker health, and also for the analysis of the health situation of the population. Brazilian

Wanderson de Oliveira has a doctorate in epidemiology from the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Wanderson specializes in the epidemiology training program applied to SUS, the Georgia disease prevention and control center in the United States. He specializes in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, also in the United States, and is a professor at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation School in Brasilia.

Until 6:25 am this Wednesday (15), the state health secretariats published 25,758 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) in Brazil, with 1,557 deaths. With the first victim in Tocantins, Brazil is killed by Covid-19 in all UFs.

Fortaleza has 1,845 confirmed cases of the disease and is the capital with the highest incidence of cases in Brazil, ahead of Manaus and São Paulo, respectively. which concentrates most of the records.