Within hours of the state’s first confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant being announced, the number of people getting tested for COVID-19 at this point at Barclay’s Center visibly increased.
“Now I am seeing that people are doing a lot test, because before the places where they did the test on the street, “explains a neighbor.
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One of these people in line is Glenda Martínez, who came to test her family because lately they have been in contact with infected people. Although she is already vaccinated: “Thank God we are well and without symptoms. I think this is becoming very difficult.”
And it is that according to scientists from South Africa the Omicron variant spreads twice as fast as the Delta variant. And it offers more than twice the chance of reinfection than the original strain of COVID-19.
And that is why specialists continue to recommend vaccination in the face of imminence for the virus to spread.
According to Dr. Ramon Tallaj, president and founder of SOMOS Community Care: “This virus was already here, it was a matter of time to find it. We do not know how bad it will be for people who do not have a vaccine. We know that vaccinated people have had few symptoms. “
However, there are some who, despite taking precautionary measures, think that this variant will be like the other 13, which did not cause the same level of affectation as the original strain of COVID-19: “I think it will be the same as the Delta variant, because most of the people are still vaccinated “, comments a passerby.
At the moment at least eight states in the country already report detected cases of this new variant.
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