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The Omicron variant, discovered in December in South Africa, has changed the course of the pandemic that we have been going through since March 2020. This new virus has triggered infections around the globe and in Spain it represents about 84% of new cases.
During the first weeks of this year 2022, Covid-19 infections skyrocketed and reached record figures, never before recorded in the first waves of the pandemic. The accumulated incidence exceeds 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks in most of our country, which places Spain in very high risk. However, deaths and deaths caused by the virus are not increasing so quickly, so the Ministry of Health has updated the measures that were taken until now when a person was infected or was in close contact with a positive person to adapt them. to new health reality.
Currently, people who get coronavirus have to quarantine for seven days. That is, the isolation time has been reduced by three days. This is so because the new cases seem to have a shorter incubation period and the manifestation of symptoms and because the significant increase in cases also translated into a considerable increase in sick leave. But what happens if a week continues to give positive?
Positive on the seventh day of confinement
However, there is a significant percentage of people who, after spending the seven days of quarantine stipulated by the Ministry of Health, continue to test positive. In fact, according to a study carried out by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases of Japan, between days seven and nine we can be more contagious even than in the first days of the infection. Thus, while after the first and second day of the onset of symptoms due to the Omicron variant, only 12.5% can spread the disease, between the seventh and ninth day they can. around 18.8%.
In this way, before leaving isolation, it is advisable to have a diagnostic test and extend it up to 10 days if she tests positive or if symptoms compatible with the coronavirus continue to appear up to three days before the end of isolation.
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