The dengue epidemic in South America has reached alarming figures so far in 2024, with a notable increase in cases and deaths compared to the previous year, especially in Brazil, a country that has surpassed its own annual historical record of dengue infections, to date more than two million cases and 715 deaths.
The situation is especially worrying in Brasilia, with 5,774 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Authorities estimate that the number could amount to 4.2 million by the end of the year and have begun to offer vaccination despite the shortage of doses.
In Argentina, the Ministry of Health reported 151,310 cases of dengue, 134,202 of them registered this year, with an incidence of 321 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 106 deaths, 96 of which occurred in 2024.
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In addition, nineteen of the 24 territorial divisions have reported the presence of the virus, removing only Patagonian regions due to unfavorable weather conditions for mosquitoes.
The Government of Javier Milei has opted for strategies that do not include mass vaccination, saying that there is a lack of evidence about the effectiveness of vaccines in current outbreaks.
For its part, Uruguay reached 158 cases of dengue on Monday (62 native and 96 imported) after adding 10 new cases in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health said in its daily report, in which it indicated that the majority of imports are from people who traveled to Argentina and Brazil.
On the other hand, Paraguay also reports worrying figures.
Since September 2023, the beginning of the most recent outbreak, until the second week of March 2024, the country has suffered 74 deaths due to dengue, the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare reported.
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Data from the General Directorate of Health Surveillance indicate that 35% of the deceased were over 60 years of age.
Peru is also experiencing an increase with 79,741 cases reported so far in 2024, an increase of 262% compared to the same period of the previous year.
82 deaths have been reported, a considerable jump from the 29th of the corresponding period in 2023.
The incidence of the disease is 233.77 per 100,000 inhabitants, with La Libertad being the most affected region.
In Colombia, the National Institute of Health has registered 55,340 cases, with 40.2% showing signs of alarm and 1% of serious cases. As of March 3, 94 probable deaths have been reported, with 10 confirmed cases and 69 under study.
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The incidence of dengue at the end of February 2024 was 154.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at risk, in stark contrast to the 48.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants reported in the same period of the previous year.
As so last in 2023, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned of the increase in dengue cases in the Americas. Last year the figure was 4.5 million cases.
Dengue, whose main vector of transmission in almost the entire American continent is the Aedes aegypti mosquito, affects people of all ages, and according to the World Health Organization, behind the expansion of the epidemic is the climate phenomenon of El Niño, as evidenced by the fact that it is growing in all parts of the world, except in Europe, according to the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom.
The increase in dengue cases in Latin America, according to experts, is also due to the need for more effective preventive and control actions, as well as constant epidemiological surveillance to combat the progression of the disease.
A court orders the arrest of the Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture accused of corruption
The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine issued a preventive arrest warrant on Friday against the Minister of Agriculture, Mikola Solski, accused of being part of a plot that would have illegally appropriated about 2,500 hectares of land that belonged to the State before his arrival at the Ministry.
According to Ukrainian media, the court has issued a sixty-day arrest warrant, which Solski can avoid if he pays a bail of 75.7 million gryvnas (1.78 million euros at the current exchange rate).
Solski presented his resignation on Thursday – which must now be accepted by the Ukrainian Parliament – after being accused this week by the Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine (NABU) of participating in a transfer of publicly owned land valued at 291 million gryvnas (about 7 million euros).
In addition, the organization investigates the still minister for trying to transfer another lot of land in an equally criminal way, valued at 190 million gryvnas (4.5 million euros).
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The events occurred, according to the Anti-Corruption Office, between 2017 and 2021.
From 2019 to 2021, Solski was president of the Committee on Agriculture and Land Policy of the Ukrainian Parliament and in 2022 he was appointed minister.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has marked himself as one of his priorities to combat corruption at the highest level in time of war to modernize the country and meet the requirements for access to the European Union.
The Chinese president tells the United States that he has to be “faithful” to his word to solve the “problems to be solved”
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the United States must “be faithful to its word” in order to solve the “problems still to be solved” in the bilateral relationship.
“China and the United States have gone through ups and downs but we must respect each other, cooperate and coexist. We must be partners and not harm each other, and for that we have to look for common ground, be faithful to the words and determined with the facts,” Xi said during the meeting.
According to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Xi also warned that “you can’t say one thing and then do another,” after which he acknowledged that, “despite the consensus and progress made” in recent months there are still “many problems to solve and room to make an effort.”
“This year we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The important thing we have learned in this time is that we must be partners, not rivals. That we must achieve a mutual benefit instead of harming each other. The important thing is to look for the common points and put aside the differences,” Xi said during the meeting.
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The Chinese president received Blinken this Friday in Beijing for an interview that was not part of the agenda of the official visit made to China by the American diplomat.
This is the second time Xi has received Blinken in Beijing, given that the Chinese president already met the American on his last visit to the Chinese capital in June 2023.
Before his meeting with Xi, Blinken also met today in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, who warned him of “growing problems” in bilateral relations, after the U.S. Senate approved a bill that will force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell the popular TikTok video application if he does not want the platform to be banned in the United States.
ByteDance, the parent company of the platform, has made it clear today that it has no intention of selling the application despite US legislation.
Earlier this week, TikTok – which, like Western services such as Google, Facebook, X or Instagram, is blocked in China, where ByteDance operates a similar application called Douyin – already anticipated that it would challenge the new US law, which it considers “unconstitutional” in court.
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U.S. legislators justify their decision by arguing that the platform poses a threat to the national security of the United States due to the possibility that the Chinese government will access user data.
In March, China criticized the “repression” against the application by the United States for being “an intimidating tactic” that will eventually “turn against” the North American country.
Israeli bombings in the north and south of Gaza cause fifty deaths
The latest Israeli attacks and bombings along the Gaza Strip have caused the death of at least 51 people, most of them civilians, both in Gaza City (north) and in the southern area of Rafah.
Israeli fighter planes bombed a house belonging to the Al Shawa family last night, in the Al Rimal neighborhood, in Gaza City, where rescue teams recovered the lifeless bodies of three people, including those of a child and a woman, under the rubble.
As Palestinian sources reported to the WAFA news agency today, the victims and several injuries were transferred to the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last hospital in operation in Gaza City after the Israeli military siege left the Al Shifa inoperative in March.
Other bombings in the neighborhoods of Zaytun, south of Gaza City, and against a residential building in the center of the city, caused the death of another Gazan, as well as an indeterminate number of injuries.
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In Rafah, one fisherman died and another was injured, according to Palestinian medical sources, while in the center of the enclave several Gazans were injured in attacks against the refugee camps of Nuseirat and Bureij.
According to the latest figures provided on Thursday by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas, more than 34,300 Palestinians have already died in Gaza, 75% women and children.
One of those little ones is a Gaza baby rescued from her mother’s womb, who died in an Israeli airstrike perpetrated in Rafah last weekend.
After five days of struggle to stay alive, he has finally died, as confirmed this Friday by a family member.
Over the weekend, 16 other children were killed in Rafah, where Israel is expected to start a ground offensive.
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A member of the Hamas political bureau asked the 18 signatory countries yesterday on Friday of a joint statement demanding the Islamists the “immediate” release of the 133 hostages, to also pressure Israel to accept a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Your sons and daughters are no more valuable than our sons and daughters,” the head of political and international relations of the political bureau of Hamas, Basem Naim, to which EFE had access, said today in a message.
Today, a delegation of the Egyptian Intelligence service is scheduled to arrive in Israel, in an attempt to revive the stagnant truce negotiations mediated by Cairo, Qatar and the United States, Egyptian security sources told EFE last night.
From Geneva, UN rapporteurs demanded that Israel allow the arrival in Gaza of the Freedom Flotilla that it plans to sail this Friday from Istanbul with 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid.
Diplomats have warned that the safe transit guarantee of this initiative is part of Israeli international obligations to prevent genocide in Palestinian territory.
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“Israel must comply with international law, including the recent orders of the International Court of Justice, to ensure the unhindered arrival of humanitarian aid,” they said in a statement.
Israel warned on Friday that any arrival of aid to Gaza other than by air, land border crossings or the port of Ashdod will constitute a “provocation,” after being asked by EFE about the administrative blockade that the Freedom Flotilla – a civilian initiative organized by human rights activists – says it is suffering in Istanbul.
