translated from Spanish: Michoacán detects COVID outbreak of delta variant in Zinapécuaro

Michoacan’s Ministry of Health warned Sunday of an outbreak of the delta variant of COVID-19 in the municipality of Zinapécuaro, although it did not clarify the number of cases detected.
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Through social networks he urged the population to take extreme precautions to avoid getting infected, “since this variant is more aggressive and presents greater resistance to conventional treatment.”

We inform the population of Zinapécuaro that an outbreak of the delta variant of COVID-19 was detected, so we urge them to take extreme precautions to avoid getting infected, since this variant is more aggressive and presents greater resistance to conventional treatment. pic.twitter.com/IuSWtVrBY2
— MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF MICHOACÁN (@SALUDMICH) July 11, 2021

According to the state’s Secretary of Health, 65,177 cases of COVID have been confirmed, and 5,892 deaths have been recorded.

As of July 10, 480 confirmed and 43 suspected cases were reported in Zinapécuaro, as well as 46 deaths and 430 recovered patients.
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On July 2, authorities in Mexico City reported that six cases of the delta variant of COVID-19 were identified in patients who were reported as stable and recovered.
The delta variant was registered in India in April and May, and has since spread worldwide. That led the World Health Organization to describe it as “worrisome, because it can be transmitted more easily and resist emerging treatments that try to reduce symptoms and affectations in people who are in intensive care.
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Original source in Spanish