BA-2 variant of Omicron circulates in ten provinces of the country

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Circula variante BA-2 de Ómicron en diez provincias del país

In ten provinces of our country, the BA-2 variant of Omicron circulates, which, although it maintains less virulence, is the one with the highest contagiousness, hence it is necessary to maintain hygienic-sanitary measures in order to avoid the disease, even when in Cuba the trend is towards a decrease in positive cases.

In the weekly conference on monitoring the disease, Dr. Francisco Durán García, National Director of Epidemiology, explained that having suffered from COVID-19 leaves a certain immunity in people, not very long lasting. It make a favorable combination for the decrease in transmission, which already reach 95.7% of the Cuban population with the complete schedule and 76.6 with booster doses, together with the application of vaccines.

The provinces that today report the largest number of positive cases in one day are Mayabeque, Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey. However, the figures reported yesterday are far from those reported weeks ago, and there are territories that have gradually managed to contain transmission, such as Sancti Spíritus, Holguín, Villa Clara, Havana, the National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health pointed out.

Regarding the mandatory use of the mask, he emphasized that in order to stop using it, it is necessary to wait for a certain balance to be achieved in the world, because it has been shown that those countries that went back to normality had to go back due to other outbreaks.