Hidalgo confirmed the first Ómicron case in the entity, with the above, there are now four states of the Republic with the presence of this variant of coronavirus.
The state governor, Omar Fayad Meneses detailed that the state laboratory of Public Health was the one that detected this case, however, the patient’s health status as well as the characteristics of his clinical picture is unknown.
Through his social networks, the local president took the opportunity to make a call to the population of the entity not to lower their guard, to take extreme care and biosecurity measures.
With the above, Hidalgo joins Mexico City, which has, so far, 16 confirmed cases of this variant, Edomex with six and Tamaulipas with three.
Recently in this entity, two more cases were added which, detailed the State Health Secretariat, correspond to two patients from the municipality of Tampico.
The first of them is a 57-year-old man, who is originally from this town and works in Ciudad Victoria. The second is about a 65-year-old woman, her source of contagion, he said, was due to having permanent contact with providers from different municipalities including Ciudad Victoria, which is why contagion chains are being sought. Both with mild symptoms and are not hospitalized.
The Secretary of Health of this entity, Gloria Molina Gamboa warned that to stop the spread of this new variant of covid, strict measures will have to be taken, as different European countries have done, due to the co-circulation of Delta and Ómicron can unleash a fourth wave of infections.
Vaccination
On the other hand, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that once the application of booster vaccines for the elderly is completed, the inoculation of health and educational personnel will begin.
With regard to the application of immunology to children, the president replied that this decision is in the hands of specialists. .
“What we do not want is to carry out something that is not convenient and necessary, I think that next week or Tuesday the health specialists could give an answer,” he commented.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx