Another variant of Coronavirus disease Has arrived in the United States from Colombia and spread throughout the country Florida, According to health officials.
The B.1.6121 variant was first discovered in Colombia in January, according to World Health OrganizationThe agency has now identified it as a variant that requires “further monitoring”.
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Colombian variety has not yet been classified, but it has been detected in approximately 2.7% of the test samples.
The B.1.6121 variant has become a dominant strain in some areas of Colombia. It emerged from the parental B.1 lineage. Fox News Report.
according to work groupAn ABC affiliate in Pembroke Park, Florida, the Columbia variant contains approximately 10% of COVID cases sequenced at the University of Miami Pathology Laboratory in Florida last week.
Very contagious Delta variant According to the news media, it accounts for approximately 49% of cases, and the Brazilian strain accounts for 26% of cases.
Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Memorial Health, told WPLG, “Last week, 10% of our patients had the Colombian variant. Why? Because of the travel between Columbia and Miami.”
The United Kingdom has reported as many as 16 cases of infection with the Colombian variant through international travel Public Health England Indicates that there is no indication that the strain will cause more serious diseases or affect the effectiveness of the vaccine.
The agency is continuing to investigate the variant and conduct laboratory tests to better understand its impact on the virus.
It is unclear how contagious the Colombian variant is, and whether it should be considered a variant of concern at this time.
John Sellick, a professor at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo, told Washington post Based on the low number of cases, it is difficult to say now.
“We will see this,” he said. “What we have to see is two weeks later, or four weeks later, will this do another trick and eventually become more?
He continued, “If this thing is really more communicative, and from 2% [of infections] To 30% or to 60%; we don’t want to see that. It must fit better than the Delta variant. It must be more communicative. “
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