The high presence in New York City of the New York and British variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes covid-19, is one of the causes that has prevented the decline in the infection rate, points out a statement from the Ministry of Health.
According to a study, the variants of the virus considered “worrying or of interest” due to their greater ease of transmission or their more serious symptoms went from constituting 10% of cases in January to representing 70% of infections in March.
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