Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The states with the most cases of Covid herein new wave of five epidemiological weeks To date, they are Mexico City, Nuevo León, Querétaro, the State of Mexico and Puebla.
- The SARS-COV2 virus variants that are most widely circulating in the country are the two Omicron subvariants KP2 and KP3, explains infectious disease specialist Héctor Raúl Pérez Gómez:
“In the last five epidemiological weeks, the entire country has also been showing an increase In what we know as the positivity percentage, this refers to the number of tests that are positive.
and it also tells us that there is greater circulation of the virus and therefore a greater number of infections.
At the moment We are at 28 percent positivity rate in the country and it is also worth noting that the positivity rate at the beginning of the year was 8 to 10 percent, so it is a factor to consider to identify that the problem is growing.”
The director of the Institute of Infectious and Experimental Pathology of the University of Guadalajara also explained that these sub variants of omicron They are known for their high contagiousness and detailed what the isolation recommendations are in cases of Covid at this time:
“It is five days from when the patient has a diagnostic test or seven days from the onset of symptoms,
Now, for patients who have more symptoms, the recommendation is to be in isolation during three days after the fever and cough have disappeared if the clinical picture includes fever and cough.
So in these cases three days from the disappearance of fever and cough and in mild cases seven days from the onset of symptoms.
o five days from the date of the positive test, that is the current isolation time recommended by the World Health Organization.”
- The symptoms of these subvariants are headache, muscle pain, throat pain, joint pain, fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, nasal congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath, tiredness, and low oxygenation.
