A few weeks ago, doctors warned that it would be possible to contract Delta and Omicron at the same time. The medical service of Spain confirmed such cases on Monday.
Infection with Delta and Omicron
As explained by Sara Quiros of the Spanish Society of Pneumonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), medical experts have already begun investigating this unusual phenomenon.
In an interview with the daily “La Voz de Galicia”, she admitted that the so-called There is not much double infection with the coronavirus in Spain so far. She added that they are found mainly in the northern regions of the country.
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Quiros believes it is “too early” to draw conclusions about COVID-19 cases, which are caused by simultaneous Delta and Omicron infections.
“We still don’t know if such infections are more dangerous,” added a pneumologist from a hospital in the Basque city of Basurto.
In most regions of Spain, the Omikron variant is already dominant among coronavirus infections. According to virologists, it is its spread that is responsible for the intensification of the sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in this country.
On Monday morning, the medical service of Andalusia in the south of Spain said Omikron already accounted for a likely 95% share of all infections currently occurring in the region.
Before Christmas in Spain, record numbers of daily coronavirus infections were recorded, which in the entire country exceeded the level of 70 thousand. diurnal infections.
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