After the National government adjust the guidelines for conducting diagnostic tests of the Coronavirus in Colombia, focusing only on the elderly population and people with comorbilidadesthe doctor, Jose Millan Onatemember of the Colombian Association of infectology assured in Caracol Radio that, although the variant Omicron has only a 25% chance of causing severityit is necessary to maintain the testing and more following the emergence of the sub-lineage BA.2.
“We still have to continue watching the genomic part of the virus; be very earring of this sub-variant which is 1.5 times more transmissible than the original. You have to be very attentive to the possibility of their occurrence reinfeccionesmaintain vigilance once morest new variants and of course continue extensive and massive vaccination for all”, affirmed Oñate.
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This call is made precisely amid a notable reduction in the realization of diagnostic tests. Well, despite the fact that the country has the capacity to do more than 100,000 tests every day, for example, yesterday only 29 thousand were processed samples.
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