The World Health Organization has begun to intensely monitor the new COVID variant – baptized as Stratus – that is extending … For the world and that, despite being considered very contagious, its effects are not for now serious. In principle, this new strain causes a characteristic rumor, but the rest of the symptoms are shown mild or moderately.
Stratus is one of the seven variants that the World Health Organization (WHO) monitors and represents about 23 % of world cases of COVID. According to the global health agency, the health risk is “low” although there is a “simultaneous increase in new cases and hospitalizations” in Southeast Asia, so it has “a significant growth advantage.” In the West, one of the countries that has reported the arrival of Stratus is England. In the islands, the two strains of this variant, XFG and XFG 2, which currently represent approximately 30 % of the disease cases in England, according to the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Variant ‘Frankenstein’
Stratus is considered a variant ‘Frankenstein’, that is, it has emerged after two different strains have been randomly combined in an infected patient. In principle, one of the native virus is known as OMICRON. According to WHO, vaccines are efficient when dealing with Stratus.
Other of the most widespread covid variants so far was known as Nimbus, which has specially affected countries such as the United States or China. Its symptoms are intense throat pain, persistent fatigue, mild cough, fever, muscle aches and nasal congestion. Some also experience digestive problems such as nausea or diarrhea
