When several mutations in the coronavirus are reported around the world, many other people are wondering if one of those variants exists in the Dominican Republic.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are about 11 Variants of COVID-19, and so far, 4 of them are in the purpose of Western countries. Alfa, Beta, Gamma and Delta are the names of the mutations in the virus that the worried organization maintains.
Meanwhile, in the Dominican Republic, the flow of this variant has not been officially detected. However, some do not rule out their arrival at any time, at a time when the country is registering a drop in the occupation of the bed for patients with coronavirus, in the extensive care sets (ICU) and the use of fans, of according to the 3 maximum ads issued through the fitness authorities.
On this issue, the Dominican Minister of Public Health, Daniel Rivera, under the pressure that the countries where at least one of the variants gave the impression “are those that have the strictest controls (against the virus) than us. ” However, he called for security and continued vaccinated.
The official referred to the subject because, in Puerto Rico, there are already two mutations of the disease.
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In this sense, the official reiterated that the Dominican Republic continues with epidemiological controls at the main access and comes out of the country’s problems.
“Public fitness takes physical fitness measures (. . . ), we have antigen tests at airports and it is necessary, as always, tests carried out through the airlines,” Rivera said.
For his part, the president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), Waldo Ariel Suero, said that the country’s controls “are very minimal. “
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“There is nothing to prevent it (the delta variant) from entering the country,” questioned the head physician of the CMD.
About Delta, which is one of the variants that has attracted most attention in the region, which was detected for the first time in India and is present in more than 70 countries, is on its way to becoming the dominant one in the world due to its high level of transmission, said Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist of the WHO.
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