After almost three years of coronavirus, still new strains continue to appear capable of infecting the population and now, experts warn about the strain that threatens to become one of the dominant ones, the so-called Orthro. According to latest data published on January 13 by the Ministry of Health, the cumulative incidence to 14 days in people over 60 years of age is in 124.52 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
For its part, Health has notified 17,773 new infections Therefore, the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 has increased to 13,711,251, after adding. In addition, they have registered 104 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 7 days, so the total number of deaths rises to 117.759.
Likewise, the portfolio directed by Caroline Darias it also offers data on hospital occupancy. There is currently a total of 2.79% of beds occupied by patients with coronavirus and a 2.52% in Intensive Care Units (ICU).
Therefore, both the health authorities as experts strongly recommend getting vaccinated for avoid further infections or in the case of having contracted the disease, to prevent severe symptoms.
As indicated in Health, of the 110,306,109 doses delivered they have administered 104,536,856 vials. Of them, 39,280,943 people have been inoculated with a dose y 39,204,019 already have the complete guideline.
Orthro, the new variant that has arrived in Spain
After the variant Crack (XBB.1.5)coming from United States and the BF7from China, has reached Spain the CH. 1. 1, known as Orthro (Orthrus) and which has already infected hundreds of people in the United Kingdom due to its great transmissibility.
From the Ministry of Health it has been confirmed that Orthro variant has already arrived in Spain. Specifically, in the last report of epidemiological surveillance system eworked by the Carlos III Institute indicates that the first cases of CH. 1.1. in our country were reported between November and dicember.
However, the Public Health expert Rafael Bengoa has qualified in Onda Cero that he does not believe that “there are reasons to be very concerned” and he foresees that the same thing will happen as with the other sublineages of Ómicron, which “continues to search for evolution how to transmit more and evade some of the defenses.
In addition, Bengoa points out that “the good news is that the countries sequence very wellin real time, both dirty water and sick water, so if a sublineage arises or a variant is born, they detect it quickly”.
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Symptoms of the Orthro variant
On the other hand, the Spanish microbiologist Maria del Mar Thomas, spokesman for the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (Seimc), commented to ‘20 minutes‘ What are the main symptoms of the Orthro:
- Fever.
- Muscle pains.
- Headache.
- General discomfort.
- Aphonia.
