In this summer of viruses, new disease outbreaks became a source of deepening anxiety and even alarm. A warming climate, vanishing forests and global travel have accelerated the spread of pathogens from animals to people, as well as among people in different parts of the world.
Montevideo, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) The Uruguayan Vaccine Commission recommended today to apply a third dose of Covid-19 to teenagers from 12 to 17 years old with comorbidities, as another measure to close the way to the spreading SARS CoV2 virus.
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“We were a model in 2020,” says Rafael Radi, a biochemist at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. “Unfortunately, things are not following the same path in 2021.”
By Luke Taylor – Complacency and a coronavirus variant help to explain why Uruguay, once a pandemic success story, couldn’t withstand the surge now rocking South America.
Once looked to as a global model for how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Uruguay has in recent months lost its grip on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It’s now one of several countries in South America struggling to control a wave of infections.
Uruguayan scientists say a mix of complacency fuelled by the country’s early success at controlling the virus and the challenges posed by a particularly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant are to blame.
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