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Hundreds of cases already in Germany: New Corona variant is rampant and is probably spreading even faster

2021-11-23T17:05:38.233Z


The delta sub-variant AY.4.2 is spreading in Great Britain. The World Health Organization is observing the new type of corona.


The delta sub-variant AY.4.2 is spreading in Great Britain.

The World Health Organization is observing the new type of corona.

London - The delta sub-variant of the AY.4.2 coronavirus is now responsible for more than one in ten new infections in Great Britain.

This was the result of a React study by Imperial College London.

The latest results were published on Thursday (November 18, 2021): According to this, 11.8 percent of 841 positive samples were attributed to the new variant.

Corona: Variant AY.4.2 is spreading in Great Britain

In total, more than 100,000 people were tested using the PCR method for the study.

With almost 1,400 people tested, the result was positive.

According to the findings from Great Britain, the sub-variant is spreading even more rapidly in the country than the previously predominant delta variant.

Since the last study in September, the scientists calculated a daily growth of 2.8 percent.

As the researchers found, symptomatic diseases after infection with AY.4.2 are less common than with other corona variants.

Typical symptoms such as fever, persistent cough and the loss or change in the sense of smell and taste would also occur less frequently.

According to study director Paul Elliott, this is a "good thing".

Corona: fewer symptoms with delta variant AY.4.2

The absence of symptoms such as coughing could reduce the risk of infection, said the researcher Christl Donnelly involved in the study.

However, she also pointed out that less symptomatic cases mean fewer infected cases will be detected.

How the sub-variant will affect the further course of the pandemic cannot yet be estimated based on the current state of knowledge.

New Corona variant: RKI classification for Germany

The sub-variant has already been discovered in Germany. As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced, 766 cases were detected from the beginning of July to mid-November. However, there is still no evidence that the importance of the variant in the pandemic is increasing. With around one percent of the random samples, the proportion of the sub-variant has been relatively constant in the past few weeks. Therefore, according to the RKI, the coronavirus AY.4.2 currently hardly plays a role in Germany.

In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet classified the sub-variant as causing concern.

AY.4.2 is still being observed.

Meanwhile, the RKI assumes, according to its own statement, "that this variant cannot spread significantly more than other lines under the infection control measures prevailing in Germany".

(dpa)

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Source: merkur

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