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An official report confirmed that there is already community transmission of the British strain of the coronavirus

2021-02-13T19:34:10.996Z


That was the conclusion of a study based on samples that were taken in the Federal Capital and in the province of Buenos Aires. The first case was identified on January 15.


02/13/2021 4:17 PM

  • Clarín.com

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Updated 02/13/2021 4:22 PM

A study by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Nation identified

community transmission of the British variant

of the coronavirus, which has a greater contagion capacity.

The conclusions are part of the recent report of the Argentine Inter-Institutional SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Project (PAIS), which includes scientists to monitor the variants of the Covid-19 virus.

The text, which was officially released last Friday, indicates that among the 156 samples that were taken in the Federal Capital and in the province of Buenos Aires, cases of the strain from the United Kingdom, technically known as

variant VOC202012 / 01

, were detected

.

"While one of them has a travel history,

the other is associated with a case of community circulation,

" the official survey stated. 

The results arise from samples that were taken between November 1 of last year and February 7, as stated in the paper of the group of scientists who are part of the "Inter-institutional Consortium for Genome Sequencing and SARS Genomic Studies- CoV-2 (PAIS Project) ".

This work team is led by Mariana Viegas, from the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital Virology Laboratory.

Shortly after the first case of the British strain was confirmed in Argentina, the technical scientific director of ANLIS Malbrán, Claudia Perandones, explained that this variant, although it showed greater transmissibility, "

does not aggravate the clinical picture of the disease

, and that is very reassuring, "according to tests conducted in conjunction with a team from New York.

"There were different studies on the evolution of the VOC202012-01 variant, lineage B.1.1.7, based on epidemiological information, but from different places, and they all reached the conclusion that it would be a 50% higher transmissibility", added the doctor. in Virology Carolina Torres, who is part of the PAIS project.


The first case detected

On January 15, the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Roberto Salvarezza, confirmed that the variant of the SARS-COV-2 from the United Kingdom was detected in a traveler from Frankfurt.

The Interinstitutional Consortium "detected the entry into the country of an Argentine resident in the United Kingdom, with a history of travel to Austria and Germany for work reasons, who arrived asymptomatic to Argentina from Frankfurt at the end of December 2020 and in Ezeiza was positive for antigens SARS CoV 2, "Salvarezza reported.

Source: clarin

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