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Nicaragua registers a high number of malaria infections for the second year
In 2020 and 2021, Nicaragua registered the highest malaria figures in the last 20 years. Minsa lost control of this epidemic
confidential.com.ni
23 January, 2022
Nicaragua closed 2021 with the second highest number of malaria infections in the last two decades. According to epidemiological bulletin number 46, until the last week of November of that year, 21,030 malaria infections were registered in the country.
This amount represents, without the figures for the last month, 33% less than the total for the previous year, when the country registered a record 31,763 infections nationwide. However, this amount is the second highest in the last 20 years.
The exact number of infections with which Nicaragua closed is unknown, because despite the overflow of this epidemic, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) has not provided a report on the impact registered mainly in the autonomous regions of the Caribbean, nor has it provided an alert. as it did in 2019, when dengue cases skyrocketed.
As confirmed by CONFIDENCIAL's investigation, "The promise to eradicate malaria: the failure of the Minsa in Nicaragua", this epidemic has been out of control for more than five years and in the Caribbean, one of the poorest regions of the country, the population gets sick up to four times in the same year due to the proliferation of the transmitting mosquito: Anopheles.
So far in 2022, as reported last Monday by the state spokesperson and vice president, Rosario Murillo, who since 2020 has been reading a brief weekly report on epidemics, 1,381 infections have been registered, of these 303 occurred in the previous week...
Nicaragua registers a high number of malaria infections for the second year
In 2020 and 2021, Nicaragua registered the highest malaria figures in the last 20 years. Minsa lost control of this epidemic
confidential.com.ni
23 January, 2022
Nicaragua closed 2021 with the second highest number of malaria infections in the last two decades. According to epidemiological bulletin number 46, until the last week of November of that year, 21,030 malaria infections were registered in the country.
This amount represents, without the figures for the last month, 33% less than the total for the previous year, when the country registered a record 31,763 infections nationwide. However, this amount is the second highest in the last 20 years.
The exact number of infections with which Nicaragua closed is unknown, because despite the overflow of this epidemic, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) has not provided a report on the impact registered mainly in the autonomous regions of the Caribbean, nor has it provided an alert. as it did in 2019, when dengue cases skyrocketed.
As confirmed by CONFIDENCIAL's investigation, "The promise to eradicate malaria: the failure of the Minsa in Nicaragua", this epidemic has been out of control for more than five years and in the Caribbean, one of the poorest regions of the country, the population gets sick up to four times in the same year due to the proliferation of the transmitting mosquito: Anopheles.
So far in 2022, as reported last Monday by the state spokesperson and vice president, Rosario Murillo, who since 2020 has been reading a brief weekly report on epidemics, 1,381 infections have been registered, of these 303 occurred in the previous week...