The Israeli embassy in Chile reported, through a statement, that there is no “Chilean variable” for Covid-19 and that it was all a “regrettable mistake.”
After conducting a telematic meeting between the director of the Department of Laboratories of the Ministry of Health of Israel, Ruth Yishai, and the director (S) of the Institute of Public Health (ISP), Heriberto García, the first explained that “our laboratory identified the sublineage C37 in an Israeli citizen who had been arriving from Latin America, and in an internal classification the finding was labeled as a Chilean variant, but due to a regrettable error this concept was publicly disseminated “.
This discarded “Chilean variable” “is a variant already known internationally, and which is also not among those considered of greatest interest”.
Meanwhile, Heriberto García was interested in establishing a bilateral mechanism to exchange data on the sequencing of virus lineages, and thus continue in the global collaboration to end the pandemic.
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