SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has notified the first case of COVID-19 by Delta Plus variant registered in the Islands. The index case is a health professional in Tenerife, linked to an outbreak of intrafamily origin, with three affected, without a record of recent travel in any of the people associated with the outbreak.
The affected has not required hospital admission and is keeping the corresponding isolation. 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 is necessary to 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 that it can become dominant.
After confirming this first case, monitoring will continue from 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 obtaining a real X-ray of the incidence of the different strains of the virus in the Archipelago.
