The patient was infected at a social event in Guayaquil. The authorities indicated that they identified 13 people with whom he had contact.
Francisco Pérez, Undersecretary of Surveillance of the Ministry of Health, confirmed this Friday, December 17, that the omicron variant of Covid-19 was detected in a person in Guayaquil. This new case (the second in the country) is monitored. He is currently in quarantine.
«On December 12 we detected a new variant omicron. He is in isolation and we are working with the surveillance teams to make the fences “said Pérez at a press conference.
The health authorities clarified that the new patient infected with the variant He has not left the country and therefore did not contract the virus abroad; has no relation to the patient detected in Quito. “He was infected at a social event in Guayaquil,” said the representative of the Ministry of Health. 13 people with whom he had contact have already been identified.
The genomic sequencing of the virus, which allows detecting what type of variant it is, is applied according to a strategy designed by the Ministry. There the symptoms and characteristics of the infection to take samples. Nearly 4,000 sequencing has been carried out and of those the majority correspond to the variant delta and two are from omicron. (DP)
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