The emergence of new variants and a summer surge in Covid-19 infections worldwide doesn’t unduly concern Jalisco health authorities.
Jalisco has not seen the spikes registered recently in Mexico City, Querétaro, Puebla, Nuevo León and some other states, where cases have risen by 30 percent, Health Secretary Fernando Petersen said this week.
Petersen said there is no federal government vaccination strategy, and the state government has not elaborated plans to purchase its own supply of vaccines, as it did last winter, when 50,000 people from vulnerable groups were given Moderna’s Spikevax shots free of charge.
Is SARS-CoV-2 a threat?
Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency but the virus is still “circulating, changing and killing,” the UN health agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said recently.
However, the protection people have built up thanks to vaccinations and boosters, and prior infections, means the vast majority of people are spared from severe illness if they become infected. This built-up immunity has reduced Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths to a fraction of the number seen at the peak of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
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