The German Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, confirmed that his country is closely following the situation of the new submutant of the “Corona” virus, which has appeared in the north-eastern United States of America.
The German official said the source of concern is that the new variant plays a role in increasing the number of cases requiring hospitalization, noting that the monitoring process continues to see if this strain has appeared in Germany and a what extension.
And an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Michael Osterholm, revealed, according to Reuters, that 7 out of 10 US states are seeing an increase in the number of cases and the number of hospitalizations due to the virus in the Northeast.
The highly pathogenic Omicron XBB 1.5 strain has accounted for more than 40 percent of cases in the United States, official data showed last week.
