Three years ago now, a new coronavirus was identified and ended up spreading across the planet from China. The first case was detected in Wuhan, where the outbreak of the disease originated in a market that ended up killing more than six and a half million people worldwide and continues to kill.
This is the official figure, more than 6.6 million dead: United States, India and Brazil The countries where the highest number of deaths from covid19 were recorded, named after the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. A month later she ended up escalating to a pandemic level.
He advertised WHO Director Dr Tedros Adhanom, which drew attention to the alarming spread and inertia of some countries. Now, 3 years later, many of us are wondering what about that Covid. We spoke about it in La Brújula with the virologist José Antonio López.
“Of the covid of three years ago, a pathogen remains with which we are surely condemned to live indefinitely“, assures the virologist
Subvariants are emerging that some studies have found to have higher transmission
A study indicates that the vaccine is more effective than natural immunity
Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States, have concluded that the vaccine against the coronavirus it is more effective than natural immunity against all-cause death, hospitalization, and emergency room visits from illness.
“Although this study also states that being infected provides greater protection against reinfection“, assures the virologist Jose Antonio Lopez.
The vaccine is effective
China reissues passports for travel abroad
China has announced it will reissue passports for Chinese citizens traveling overseas for tourism or to visit friends and familyin addition to resume some transit visas for international travellers.
The National Immigration Administration specified in a press release that the resumption of these procedures From 8 January 2023 it will optimize the Asian giant’s immigration management policies and measures.
China’s emergency center for disease control said today it had not found “any cases predominantly related to the delta variant” in the Asian country. ravaged by up to nine subvariants of the omicron strain.
“The delta variant is not prevalent in China and no variety of it has recombined with the omicron variant.“, Xu Wenbo, a CDC official, assured at a press conference.
