The Secretary of Health of Mexico City, Oliva López Arellano, revealed this Sunday that the Delta variant is already the dominant one in 85% of the total cases of Covid-19 in the capital.
“Two weeks ago it began its presentation and it is already the dominant variant of the sequencing that is carried out, we are estimating that around 85% of the cases of Covid-19 are already a Delta variant, therefore the call to all people to continue taking care of themselves , do not lower your guard and use the mask and do not attend crowded spaces “, he explained in a press videoconference.
The head of Health in the capital mentioned that although there have been more variants in Mexico City, such as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, it is the Delta variant, identified first in India, which is currently the hegemonic.
Regarding the cases of minors with Covid-19, the secretary reported that there are currently 12 hospitalized for said Delta variant, but, fortunately, none seriously.
Meanwhile, Eduardo Clark García Dobarganes, general director of Digital Government of the Digital Agency for Public Innovation (ADIP), reported that there are 5 thousand active cases among the population aged 0 to 17, in addition, that it is very difficult to project when it could occur the peak of the so-called third wave of the pandemic due to the characteristics of the Delta variant.
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“It is very difficult to make a particular projection of when the peaks and numbers could be derived from the certainty that we live throughout the world that we still have no concrete idea of many of the attributes and parameters of which the Delta variant spreads as opposed to of the original strain of Covid-19 that we all modeled a year ago and that we had clear parameters, “he explained.
However, the official assured that for now in the capital of the country they are not seeing an exponential growth in hospitalization.
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