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A new variant of the coronavirus has been discovered beyond our eastern border. The deputy minister of health and the chief sanitary doctor of Belarus informed that the Delta Light type had been discovered there. It is, like the classic Delta variant, much more contagious than previous strains.
- Since the beginning of August, the number of infections has been increasing in Belarus. The latest official numbers of new COVID-19 cases are at the highest since the start of the pandemic
- A few days ago, the local health ministry announced the discovery of the Delta Light variant
- It is not yet known if it is more dangerous than the standard Delta variant
- There are no official data on the number of infections with this variant, nor is it known whether the Delta Plus variant, discovered in Great Britain, has appeared in Belarus.
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
The deputy minister of health and the chief sanitary doctor of Belarus, Alyaksandr Tarasienka, said on the local television about the appearance of a new type of Delta coronavirus variant – Delta Light.
– The coronavirus is circulating in the so-called Delta variant, but since September we started to record cases of such a variant as Delta Light. So far we have not observed any differences, the cases are very similar – said Tarasienka.
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The deputy minister recalled that the Delta variant is much more contagious than the previous ones. – We previously said that the coronavirus takes over 15 minutes to pass from person to person. Now it takes literally a minute, two – he said.
Belarus has been struggling with another wave of the pandemic since August. According to Tarasienka, people aged 30 to 49 are most often affected in the country. The situation is different in the capital of the country – in Minsk people aged 18-29 suffer mainly from the disease.
Health Minister Dzmitry Piniewicz revealed that currently 40 percent of people in Belarus. hospital beds are reserved for COVID-19 patients.
According to official data, there are around 2 jobs a day. COVID-19 infections and a dozen deaths, however, according to both Belarusians and foreign experts, the data is seriously underestimated.
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Denis Kazakiewicz, a journalist who knows the situation in Belarus, claims that the real numbers are much higher. He cites the words of medics who say that the pandemic situation in Belarus “is a great catastrophe” and “the endless hell of COVID”. Doctors must make choices about which coronavirus patients to treat first (“they must play God”).
He tweeted a week ago that “Nine people died from COVID-19 in one hospital on October 14th. And the official figure on that day is 17 deaths from COVID-19 throughout Belarus ».
According to official data, more than 19% have taken at least the first dose of the COVID-27 vaccine. inhabitants of the country. About 20 percent are fully vaccinated.
On Friday, the Belarusian Ministry of Health withdrew the order to wear masks and respect distance. This happened after criticism from President Alexander Lukashenka, who said that wearing the masks should be voluntary.
A new version of the Delta Coronavirus variant has recently been discovered in the UK. It is marked with the symbol AY.4.2 or Delta Plus.
It is Delta Plus that may be responsible for the still very large number of infections in this country. Currently, it is already responsible for 10 percent. cases of infections.
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According to British experts, the infectivity of AY.4.2 may be higher by 10%. than with the classic Delta.
— If preliminary evidence is confirmed, AY.4.2 may be the most infectious strain of coronavirus since pandemic began – said recently Francois Balloux, director of the University College London Genetics Institute. – But it is difficult to make unambiguous judgments yet. I do not rule out that this increase is an accidental demographic event.
More and more cases of Delta Plus are discovered outside the UK. The variant is also present in Poland. So far 82 cases of this variant have been sequenced in our country.
It is not known if Delta Light is the same subtype as Delta Plus. There is no data from Belarus in the GISAID and Pango Lineages databases analyzing the occurrence of different coronavirus lines. So it is impossible to say how many cases of Delta Plus occurred in our eastern neighbors and whether these numbers would coincide with the reports on Delta Light.
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