The Secretary of the Department of Health (DS), Carlos Mellado López, confirmed that the new variants of the SARS-CoV-2, cataloged as variants of interest, were identified in the Isla.
The Secretariat ensures that it is monitored by the DS’s epidemiology team and that, at the moment, the vehicles are protected against the three variants found in the Isla.
The new variants of interest identified in Puerto Rico are: the Brazil P.2 variant and the California B.1.429 variant, these variants are summed up in the British variant B.1.1.7 which was confirmed in February.
We are busy monitoring the cases identified in order to be able to take effective form. The viruses have mutations, however, and have been correlated with the influenza virus that has been around for years, so the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no exception. The important thing at the moment is not to take care of it and be careful, ”Mellado concluded, making a call to calm before the identified cases.
The case identified with the Brazil P.2 variant is a female between 40 and 49 years old. While identifying Puerto Rican patients with the California B.1.429 variant, many cases are still under investigation.
The Department of Public Health Epidemiology of the DS Public, collaborates with the Center for the Control and Prevention of Injuries in San Juan (CDC, by its English seal) and the Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU). Además, three laboratories in the island: Quest, LabCorp and Ilumina, sent to the CDC in Atlanta to demonstrate and maintain molecular vigilance.
According to the galeno, a variant of preoccupation is when the virus presents cambios that it has some particular characteristics, for example, become more transmissible and by generating more cases of COVID-19. The variants of interest have not accumulated the number of necessary changes to read to convert to a variant of preoccupation, but there are some of their characteristics, and therefore they are monitored.
The Department of Health confirmed the 15th February version of the B.1.1.7 variant, also known as the British variant. The plot was obtained by a patient not resident in Puerto Rico with a history of traveling to foreign lands. On 24 February, the DS reported the identification of additional patients with the British variant, which were not linked to another with the other. While four of his new cases are his people of the same conglomerate. All fatalities and no hospitalization are required.
The Secretariat has a luminosity in the disease that, in addition to being vaccinated when it is in turn, continues with the contraceptive measures that include the use of mascarillas, lava flows and physical distance. “Now that nothing is more important than the vacancy. The Indian data show that the vacancies are protected against COVID-19 and the variants of the virus that cause it, ”said the Secretary of Health.