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The situation of Covid-19 in China, where the omicron variant is causing the worst health crisis since the start of the pandemic, added to the lifting of protection measures in the West, will cause a rebound in “six or seven months”, the epidemiologist warns Oriol Mitjà. The infectious disease specialist Germans Trías i Pujol Hospital in Badalonawhich was in charge of the response of the Government of Catalonia against the coronavirus during the first months, warns of the appearance of new variants at a time when the immunity from previous vaccinations or infections has worn off.
“Expected a new variant that will arrive, will catch us with immunity very low, because it’s been a while since we received the last dose, and will cause a big wave, we’ll see how serious. The virus is replicating more than ever and invading Asia. Surely, China will not be able to contain it”, he explained in an interview in The newspaper. What’s more, In the diary NowMedia required: “I don’t have the crystal ball, but you can start from the next four or six months“. According to the specialist, “variants take about two months to arrive and, therefore, the temporality would be 4, 6 or 8 months”.
“We must not begin to normalize. The virus has not gone away,” warned the epidemiologist in an interview on the TVE program Coffee of ideas. Mitjà criticized on air the elimination of the quarantines of those infected by coronavirus. “It is very serious to eliminate quarantines. People who are infected should not go to work. It is the ABC of Public Health“, he pointed out. “All the mechanisms should be maintained,” he said in reference to the preventive measures against the coronavirus that have been eliminated in recent weeks.
The tests not only serve to have data on the incidence of covid, but they are also an infection control intervention, because they allow positives to be identified and isolated.
Isolation is the most effective tool to reduce transmission.– Oriol Mitjà (@oriolmitja) March 30, 2022
“They continue to think of accelerating consumption, that hotels be filled again, that the same daily flights or more come again. It’s a barbarity. growth to nothing”, laments Mitjà in the interview with El Periódico. The ‘old normal’, he says, was ‘toxic’. “We must not start normalizing. The virus is not gone,” she adds. Precisely, the The World Health Organization today reported the appearance of three new variants who are known by the names XD, XF y XE, the latter being the most transmissible to date.
According to a WHO report, XE is a combination of la variant Omicron’s original (BA.1) and the dominant underlining BA.2 (Silent Ómicron), and is considered so far as the most transmissible on a time when many European countries have eliminated the mask indoors and others, like Spain, they study to do it soon.
The study states that the XE variant grows 10% faster than BA.2 u Omicron silent. In the update of the variants, the WHO points out that XD and XF are combinations of the Delta variant and the Omicron variant (BA.1) and that they are better known as Deltacrón. At the moment, this organism does not warn about its transmissibility since it is lower than other variants. Nor is it associated with greater severity of Covid.
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