COVID-19 cases increase again while a new variant begins to circulate in certain parts of the world. The World Health Organization said that the increase in cases was mainly in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific regions.
Airports screening in the United States has detected the new variant of travelers arriving from these regions to destinations in California, Washington, Virginia and New York.
The new variant is called NB.1.8.1. He arrives under the official name of the United States on COVID-19 vaccination changes. On Tuesday, the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, announced that COVVI -19 photos are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women – a decision immediately questioned by several public health experts.
The new variant, increasing worldwide, had reached in mid-May reached almost 11% of the sequenced samples reported. The WHO has appointed it a “variant under surveillance” and considers low -world public health risk with current vaccines that should remain effective.
The opportunity said that some Western Pacific countries have reported an increase in headdresses and hospitalizations, but nothing has so far suggested that the disease associated with the new variant is more serious compared to other variants.
The variant called LP.8.1 is currently the dominant version in the United States and in the world. ___
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