Madrid detects at least four cases of the British variant of Covid-19

The Madrid’s community confirmed this Saturday that it has detected in the region four cases of Covid-19 from variante britnica of the virus, as well as three other suspects that are pending confirmation.

According to the Deputy Minister of Public Health and the Covid-19 Plan, Antonio Zapatero, last week a patient who had traveled from england He went to the health services of the region with symptoms and an antigen test was performed, a positive result of coronavirus.

The next day three members of his familyThe parents and sister went to the hospital and they underwent a PCR, which in exchange for the antigen test gives the possibility of sequencing the virus. In the latter, his contagion with the British variant was confirmed. The initial case, which is probably infected with the new strain, has not been accounted for Health lacking the genomic information provided by the pcr to ensure the origin of the case.

He fourth confirmed case in the Community of Madrid he is a young citizen who also flew from London. According to Zapatero, this patient went to a different hospital from the previous infections on Tuesday of this week and he was given a CPR, also testing positive for the new variant of the virus.

In addition to these four cases, there are three other coronavius-infected people under study. Next week, around Tuesday or Wednesday, the result will be known, the Deputy Minister has detailed.

Zapatero has insisted that none of the detected cases of this new strain is serious and that “there is no need to generate an alarm,” since the British variant of Covid-19 has the capacity to be transmissible but does not lead to four more serious clinics.

“Do not drink with nervousness” these new cases, Zapatero stressed, who has argued that this only “forces us to be more cautious in prevention measures.”

For his part, the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, stressed that the new variant of the coronavirus He has entered through the Barajas airport and that it is necessary for him to have more exhaustive controls, as the Community of Madrid has been demanding from the central government for six months.