The state of New York confirmed this Sunday his first case of the South African variant of the COVID-19, which was first detected in U.S at the end of January in two people residing in Carolina del Sury has already emerged in other parts of the country.
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In his daily statement on the evolution of the pandemic in New York, which continues to reduce infections and hospitalizations, the governor Andrew Cuomo detailed that the variant has been identified in a resident of the county of Nassau, but did not provide information on whether the individual had traveled.
This case adds, in addition to the initials in South Carolina, two others detected in the state of Maryland in early February and a last one in the neighboring state of Connecticut a week ago, in a resident who had been hospitalized in the city of New York.
Cuomo pointed out that the indicators invite us to continue “opening up” the economy but warned that “with the discovery of a case of the South African variant in the state, it is more important than ever that New Yorkers remain vigilant, wear masks, wash their hands and are socially distanced ”.
The South African variant is highly transmissible, according to experts, and is the second known variant that has spread widely in the world, after being discovered in the UK, something that worries authorities now that vaccinations are in progress.
This Sunday, the leading epidemiologist in the United States, Anthony Faucisaid in Fox News that the Government is doing “preliminary and early experiments” on the possibility of the strain becoming “predominant” and did not rule out “a version of the vaccine that is specifically directed at the South African (variant).”
When the country most impacted by the covid-19 pandemic approaches 500,000 deaths, Fauci expressed hope that by this month of July the United States will have the 600 million doses promised by President Joe Biden to immunize the entire population. population.
Although new cases are falling in the vast majority of the country, the epidemiologist clarified that the contagion figures are still very high and recommended not to lower our guard.
With information from EFE
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