The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, spoke about the growth of the Delta coronavirus variant in the country and confirmed the presence of this mutation, although, for the moment, it has little impact on the total of reported cases: “the country presents a general decrease in the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths,” he reported. In this sense, he held a meeting with directors of the surveillance and epidemiology areas of jurisdictions, members of the PAIS consortium and heads of the Respiratory Virosis Reference Laboratory and the Genomic and Bioinformatics Platform of ANLIS Malbrán. Thus, they agreed to strengthen the actions of surveillance and control of outbreaks of variants of concern.
“In the current epidemiological context, the country presents an overall decrease in the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, with less than 5 percent detection of cases of local transmission of Delta variant in population surveillance and cluster of cases, and between 70 and 80 percent of variants sequenced in travelers corresponding to that variant of concern,” Analyzed. At the same time, he explained that until September 13, 2021, 415 cases of Delta variant were registered, 373 correspond to imported cases and 42 infections of local transmission. Likewise, 22 are in the City of Buenos Aires (15 isolated infections), three associated with an institutional outbreak and 4 that correspond to close contacts identified through epidemiological research. While one was isolated in Tucumán, 13 in Córdoba, and 6 in the province of Buenos Aires.
On the other hand, four people died because of the Delta variant of 63, 47 and 39 years, with a travel history or related to travelers. Of these, two had not been vaccinated and one had received a dose of Pfizer vaccine. While the fourth case corresponds to an 82-year-old person, with no travel history, who had not received any dose of vaccine.
