Last Tuesday, the first case registered in the country was announced. The Ministry of Public Health investigates a probable primary case.
One second case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus was confirmed this Friday in Ecuador.
The first case It had been announced by the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, last Tuesday.
Is a Ecuadorian, engineer by profession, who returned from South Africa.
The first patient that had been detected in Quito He remains stable without relapse or new cases have been confirmed among his contacts.
According to this state portfolio, they have 42 tests to the closest people, who traveled on the same plane with the first patient.
The Government confirmed the first omicron case in Ecuador
The second case of this variant, reported the Ministry of Health, occurred in Guayaquil and it is not related to the first contagion detected in the capital of the Republic.
The new contagion would have occurred in a social event. Is found in quarantine and the respective epidemiological fences have been applied.
Person is stable and his symptoms are mild. The epidemiological investigation has determined that he did not leave the country.
Is a 48 year old woman and for the moment I know discard a community contagion. He had the complete schedule of vaccines against the coronavirus. She received a dose from Johnson & Johnson and two injections from AstraZeneca.
According Francisco Pérez, National Undersecretary of Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), surveillance circles are being closed to determine where that case comes from.
“The person was infected on the weekend, before 12 (December), in a social event, unfortunately we have not had much collaboration of the people who attended (…) we keep the investigation open to precisely gather more information from where there may be a primary case”, He indicated.
A total of 13 persons of the second contagion are in the epidemiological fence.
The variant omicron it is considered highly contagious.
Although this variant has been confirmed in the country, the authorities they did not plan to take new measures to those already announced, such as limiting capacity and prohibiting events in public spaces.
Restrictive measures begin this Friday and for 18 days; in the hands of local governments the requirement of a vaccination certificate
“There may be (an increase), at the moment in which the social activities that we are seeing are maintained, which are being maintained during these weeks. Thats why we we have made the demand towards local governments, to take into account the measures we have requested, reduce capacity, request, if possible, vaccination certificates for entering commercial places, discos, bars, etc … ”, said Pérez.
The official reiterated that there is no significant upturn in cases in Ecuador although there is a small increase in infections, compared to last week. He further noted that no saturation health system, but added that with the omicron, being much more contagious, the sustainability of the health system could be put at risk due to a sudden rise.
He asked that biosafety standards be maintained and that citizens will receive their vaccination scheme.
This weekend there will be a new massive day of immunization called Vaccination with more than 500 points.
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