Starting next Monday (10), all events held in the city of São Paulo must require a passport for a vaccine against Covid-19 and proof of two doses, regardless of the number of people.
The measure was announced on the morning of this Thursday (6) during a presentation by Covisa (Coordination of Health Surveillance) on the epidemiological scenario in the capital, which led Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB) to cancel the street Carnival in the capital of São Paulo.
For now, the document is only required in places with more than 500 people. “And before it was enough to prove a dose, now it will be necessary to have two”, said the municipal secretary of Health, Edson Aparecido.
The measure was taken because of the advancement of the omicron variant of the new coronavirus and the cases of people with flu symptoms, which are filling health units and hospitals, including private individuals.
“We are making this change due to the epidemiological situation that the city is experiencing today. As long as there is this scenario of the rise of the ômicron variant in the city, we will demand the need for a passport for any event”, said Aparecido.
The rule, according to him, does not apply to bars and restaurants and was also taken over by the large number of parties that must be held during the Carnival period.
Some public bodies, such as the Court of Justice forums, the City Council and the city hall building itself, require the document to allow people to enter.
HOW TO PROVE?
- Printed or digital vouchers will be accepted.
WHERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT
- e-SaúdeSP app
- VaciVida platform
- Digital Poupatempo app
Starting next Sunday (9), all public employees of the state government will need a vaccine passport. The measure has been adopted since last year for employees of the municipal administration of São Paulo.
Acceleration of cases
After registering around 53,000 calls from people with respiratory problems last Wednesday (5th) in the municipal health network, the city hall announced this Thursday that the 469 UBSs (Basic Health Units) in the municipality will start working on Saturdays, since from this weekend. The locations will also do vaccinations against Covid-19 and flu.
Luiz Antonio Vieira Caldeira, coordinator of the Health Surveillance, believes that the number of visits on Wednesday is a record.
According to the Sanitary Surveillance, in the middle of last December, the emergency doors of the municipal network – UPAs (Emergency Care Units), AMAs (Ambulatory Medical Assistance) and emergency rooms – had, on average, 18 thousand visits per day of patients with flu-like symptoms, an increase of almost 200%.
Since December 23, because of the pressure in emergencies, the UBSs began to assist people with respiratory problems, without the need for an appointment. “This measure decompressed emergency demand,” said Caldeira.
According to him, the analysis presented to the mayor, completed on Wednesday night, still has about 40% of delay in the notification of the data, mainly because of the hacker attack on the website of the Ministry of Health, last month.
Even so, he said, the demand for patients with flu symptoms, including Covid-19 and influenza, in the municipal health network, is similar to the peak of Covid, in March and April 2021. The difference, he said, is that now there are cases mild, in which drugs are prescribed for treatment, without the need for hospitalization.
In the presentation, with more than 50 pages, Covisa showed that since December the municipal health has been facing two problems, the outbreak of out-of-season flu and the advance of Covid-19 because of the ômicron, which, according to him, should already be account for up to 70% of contamination at the end of last year.
Currently, he said, most people who seek medical care with mild flu-like symptoms are patients infected with the micron. “What concerns us is the continuity of Covid infection and we were not counting on a rebound,” he said. “The world expected that with vaccination we would have fewer and fewer cases of Covid, until there were no more, but it came back strong.”
The simultaneous incidence of the new strain of the H3N2 flu and the omicron variant of the coronavirus has led to an increase in hospitalizations and visits to patients with respiratory symptoms in public and private hospitals in São Paulo.
A leaf showed that last Tuesday (4th) the wait for care at AMA Sorocabana, in Lapa (west zone), reached five hours. The time was similar to that of private emergency rooms.
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