The Goiânia district has an index of Aedes infestation of nearly 5% and a high risk of dengue epidemic | Goiás

• Social Sector – 4.81
• Sector Santo Hilário – 3.83
• Jardim Guanabara – 3.49
• Jardim América – 3.27
• Jardim Ana Lúcia The Quick Survey on Infestation with Aedes (read) was carried out between January 7 and 11. During the operation, agents visited more than 30,000 properties in all areas of the city.

The average of Goiânia infestation index was 1.7%. The Ministry of Health explained how these data were evaluated:

• up to 0.9% – satisfactory situation
• from 1 to 3.9% – epidemic alert situation
• greater than 4% – situation of

More than 500 agents

The municipal health service is working to reduce the number of people suffering from dengue in the capital in 2019. Goiânia has recorded nearly 30,000 cases of the disease in 2018. Seventeen people died [19659017] "The risk of the epidemic is due to the fact that we have never had an epidemic of this type of virus in Goiânia and that we have for the first time a predominance, what i means that a large part of the population is not protected against this virus. luck for this part "said Flúvia Amorin, Superintendent of Health Surveillance.

Because of the high rate of infestation in some neighborhoods, Thursday (17) agents began to worsen mosquito epidemics. officers demand that residents be vigilant and stop throwing garbage at an undue location.

"You are now throwing the drug into the manhole, and when it rains, you will take it, but it will not. It is the same because garbage clogs, people throw garbage in the mouth of the wolf, "said the agent João Flausiano.