The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government notify the first case of COVID-19 by Delta Plus variant registered in Canary Islands. The index case is a healthcare professional in Tenerife, linked to an outbreak of intrafamily origin, with three affected, with no record of recent travel in any of the people associated with the outbreak.
The affected has not required hospital admission and it is saving the corresponding insulation. The so-called Delta Plus variant (AY.4.2) is a sublineage of the delta variant (B.1.617) of SARS-Cov2 and unlike the latter, it has not been determined to be more dominant than the other variants so far.
It becomes necessary wait to know its evolution to determine if its incidence in the islands may increase, although given the experience and percentages of evolution obtained in other territories where it is present, it is foreseeable that it will acquire prominence, although behaviors are not extracted from which it can become dominant.
Monitoring in the genomic surveillance network
After confirming this first case, Health will continue to monitor the genomic surveillance network for COVID-19 in the Canary Islands, which includes a protocolized system for the detection, monitoring and control of the presence of the different variants of SARS-Cov2 in the Islands. .
This network was launched in March of this year, through the Directorate of Public Health, its different controls allow to obtain a real X-ray of the incidence of the different strains of the virus in the Archipelago.
