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The variant has set off alerts in several studies because it presumes the potential risk of contagion that it has.
This variant joins the Delta and Gamma that currently have spread throughout Mexico.
With regard to the return to face-to-face classes, supposed protocols and indications have been activated so that it occurs under control parameters and response to possible infections.
The arrival of the variant Lambda It has been registered in Mexico City and the fact occurs days after the return to face-to-face classes is given, which should warn about the serious follow-up to the recommendations made to contain its contagion.
The news has begun to be spread on social networks and influencers such as Chumel Torres have been in charge of spreading the information that is available in this regard, just this day when a drop in the peak of positive cases for COVID-I9 registered in the CDMX, so the epidemiological traffic light remains orange.
Torres published on his Twitter account the news of the arrival of this variant to the capital of the country along with an ironic message where he warns: “just for the return to school.”
The influencer’s action is part of the conversation that will be generated from the identification of new cases with this variant and the eventual decisions based on its combat or spread.
This variant was registered for the first time in Peru in 2020 and in Mexico the first cataloged case occurred in the state of Colima, where the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Welfare of the entity confirmed the case.
The WHO has ruled out that it is an aggressive variant, however it is one that has a significant transmission capacity.
“So far, there is no evidence that allows inferring a more aggressive or severe behavior, although it is possible that it has an increased transmission capacity,” PAHO Incident Manager Sylvian Aldighieri commented at the time.
The issue to consider of this variant are the results of the study that was carried out by Japanese scientists, who considered that the mutation found in Peru is a potential threat to humanity.
Back to class in the middle of the contingency
From immediately notifying the health center closest to the school to carrying an extra mask in the backpack, these are some of the recommendations that local and public education authorities have made, in the face of the controversial return to classrooms that is scheduled next Monday, August 30.
Before the return, alternatives have been offered for skeptical parents to do so, such as continuing to take classes on open television through channels 11 and 22.
This invariably establishes a series of challenges for which the authorities have to prepare and, most importantly, define protocols through which immediate reaction to eventualities is achieved.
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