translated from Spanish: Discard New Lion suspected case of Covid-19 B117

Nuevo León.- Nuevo León.- This Thursday the Secretariat of the State of Nuevo León rule out the suspicious case that shared a similarity of 96.3% with the B117 strain of Covid-19 first detected in the United Kingdom.Read more: Peronas with side effects to Covid-19 vaccine should not receive second dose: Lopez-Gatell
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At a press conference, the Secretary of Health, Manuel de la O Cavazos, reported that after having randomly analyzed 30 samples of people with viral load, one was presented with the characteristics of variant B117 of SARS-CoV-2 causing Coronavirus disease.

“The most characteristic mutation of the variant was sought and was not found. Other mutations were sought, but were not found, so it is ruled out. It is ruled out that this virus belongs to the new variant,” he said. It should be remembered that on 10 January, the Ministry of Health of the State of Tamaulipas confirmed the first case of the new strain known as B117 that was found in a foreign traveller from the United Kingdom who arrived in the Reynosa on 29 December. Read more: Alert about the sale of Pfizer apocryphal vaccines in MexicoThe one who died days later after severe complications that led to him being intubated causing, however, so far no new cases have been identified, as mentioned by the Secretary of Health, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, so far no evidence has been found that B117 is in circulation since the first confirmed case was of an exported an international traveler.

Original source in Spanish