The state of Rio de Janeiro decided to cancel, as of next Monday (17), elective surgeries in the public network due to the removal of health professionals because of Covid-19.
In the capital, the city announced that it will suspend non-emergency surgeries, but claimed that the reason is the high risk of contagion.
The measure is valid for 30 days in both the state and municipality of Rio.
According to the State Department of Health, up to 20% of professionals were removed from state units because of Covid. The increase in cases driven by the omicron variant has raised concern.
This Thursday (13), the state recorded the highest number of cases in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic, with 12,837 new infections. Most of them were registered in the city of Rio, which accounted for 11,943 cases of the disease.
With the advance of the ômicron, a strain that is already dominant in the city, the capital of Rio de Janeiro is witnessing the worsening of its epidemiological indicators, which forced the city hall to open new beds this week.
Although the number of deaths is at a low level, Covid cases and hospitalizations have exploded in recent weeks.
On the 1st of this month, there were 23 people hospitalized in the public network, a number that jumped to 338 hospitalizations this Friday morning (14). According to the Municipal Health Department, 90% of patients do not have a complete vaccination schedule, and about 38% have not taken any dose of the vaccine.
This week, the city government decided to put about 30 beds into operation daily to treat patients with coronavirus at Hospital Municipal Ronaldo Gazolla, a unit in the north of Rio de Janeiro that was a reference in the treatment of the disease.
In November last year, the hospital managed to bring the number of hospitalizations to zero and closed the sector dedicated to Covid due to the drop in Covid numbers.
However, with the new increase in cases, the city government says that it reopened, last Tuesday (11), 50 beds in the hospital and that it asked the state and the federal government to reopen more vacancies in Rio.
The expectation of the authorities is that, with vaccination, the increase in cases does not generate an explosion in the number of deaths, as was seen in the worst moments of the pandemic. In the city of Rio, 81.5% of the population completed the vaccination schedule.
This Friday morning (14), the state received 93,500 doses of Pfizer to immunize children aged 5 to 11 years. According to the government, the goal is to vaccinate 1.5 million children across the state. The capital of Rio de Janeiro begins to vaccinate this public next Monday (17).
The first child to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Brazil was little Davi Seremramiwe Xavante, 8. Indigenous to the Xavante people, he received the vaccine this Friday (14th), in São Paulo.
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