Gisaid (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data) which is updated every 24 hours with information from around the world and its reports are generally accepted by the scientific community, indicated that last week seven cases of Ómicron were presented, so there have been added in that time 16 infected.
The platform was created to monitor influenza cases around the world; however, it is also used to track covid-19 cases, especially of the new variant.
According to the map, the cases are in Mexico City with 16 cases, the State of Mexico with six, and Tamaulipas with one.
A total of 77 countries shared 17,253 Omicron genome sequences with Gisaid with unprecedented speed from sample collection to getting this data into the database in some cases in less than 24 hours.
Among the people detected with the new variant in the country is the first case, that of a 51-year-old foreign man, vaccinated with both doses of Pfizer, who also was admitted to the Angeles Lomas Hospital presenting mild symptoms. Currently it is already registered.
The newly reported cases are under medical surveillance and quarantined. It has been detected that of the lineage of interest B.1.1.529, as Ómicron was called, all the positives are BA.1 descendants. Variant B.1.1.529 has as descendants BA.1 and BA.2.
In recent weeks, suspicious cases have been analyzed in Sinaloa, Quintana Roo, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Jalisco and Mexico City.
For their part, federal authorities began a process of tracking cases of their relatives, friends and work colleagues, with whom they interacted after returning from a trip abroad to rule out or confirm a possible transmission within Mexican territory.
It was learned that this variant is already widely dominant in the United States, being responsible for 73.25 percent of new Covid-19 infections during the week ending December 18, according to data from health authorities very concerned about human trafficking. between both countries.
Extremely communicable, Ómicron overtook the delta variant in a few weeks, representing 96.3% of new cases in three northwestern states of the country (Oregon, Washington and Idaho), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) .
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