SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 22 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands reports four cases of Covid-19 by subvariant XE, a lineage of the Ómicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants.
Three of the affected people are young and the fourth is a person over 65 years of age and all have had a favorable evolution without requiring hospital admission.
Two of the cases were recorded in Tenerife and the other two in Gran Canaria, the latter having a history of travel outside of Spain.
The one known as the XE subvariant is the result of the combination of the omicron variant (BA.1) and the BA.2 sublineage of SARS-Cov2 and, so far, it has not been determined that it is more dominant than the other variants or that it have a different evolution than Omicron.
MONITORING IN THE GENOMIC SURVEILLANCE NETWORK
After confirming these first cases, the genomic surveillance network for COVID-19 in the Canary Islands will continue to be monitored, which includes a protocolized system for the detection, monitoring and control of the presence of the different variants of SARS-Cov2 on the islands. , reports the Ministry in a note.
This network was launched in March of last year, through the Directorate of Public Health, and its different controls allow obtaining a real X-ray of the incidence of the different strains of the virus in the archipelago.
