It is also known as stealthy omicron, a lineage or variant of the original omicron that could spread faster and would be more difficult to detect, according to international data that exists at the moment.
Its official name is BA.2 variant of ómicron and it is already present in Ecuador. The Research Center of the Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (UEES) registered the first cases of the lineage, which are in Guayas.
The first case corresponds to a 56-year-old woman, with her complete vaccination schedule. She was diagnosed on February 26 of this year.
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The following two cases are unvaccinated people, diagnosed as positive on March 2, 2022.
A fourth case was diagnosed as positive on March 3. And the fifth, on March 7. Both only had two doses of vaccination, that is, they lacked the booster or third dose, as indicated in the UEES.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that this variant exceeds the previous one with some 8,000 cases identified in more than 40 countries, including the United States, Germany, India and others.
In the United Kingdom, more than 400 cases have been detected since this lineage was discovered last December, international media report.
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The authorities of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador (MSP) have not yet confirmed the registration of this variant in the country.
Until this Monday the 14th, Ecuador had 849,699 positive cases of COVID-19, confirmed by tests.
Likewise, a total of 35,348 deaths from the virus were registered in the country, since the start of the pandemic, in March 2020. Of these, 25,154 are confirmed by COVID-19. The other 10,194 are considered probable.
Pichincha is the province that has registered the most cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. It had 311,894 positives on Monday the 14th. Guayas follows with 133,220, according to official reports from the MSP.
In Ecuador, this Monday the 14th, more than 1.8 million students from the Sierra-Amazonía regime returned to face-to-face classes with 100% capacity in the classrooms, at all levels of education, according to figures from the Ministry of Education.
It is the first time that all the students physically attend the classrooms. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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