Ómicron’s BA.5 strain with increased circulation in Portugal – News
“if the introduction and circulation of the BA.5 line of the variation, which presents other revolutions of the virus additional and the impact on the entry of the series”, advances to cells, the document of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) and the Institute National Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge (INSA).
According to INSA, which estimates that the BA.
The BA.5 lineage circulates with greater intensity in the Center region, where it already represented 10.4% of the sequences with April 10 and 4.
The DGS and INSA report also states that there is a growing trend in the cumulative incidence of seven days per 100,000 inhabitants in the age groups between 20 and 29 years, 50 and 59 years and 70 and 79 years.
According to the document, the transmissibility index (Rt) of SARS-CoV-2 is at 1.00 nationally, having risen in five regions: the North went from 1.00 to 1.08, the Center from 0. .94 to 1.02, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo from 0.92 to 0.97, Alentejo from 0.94 to 1.00 and Madeira from 0.82 to 0.86.
As for the pressure of the pandemic on health services, data from the DGS indicate that inpatients with intensive care in hospitals in mainland Portugal represent only 18% of the threshold defined as 255 occupied beds, compared to 23.5% in the previous week. .
Hospitals in the North region are the ones with the highest occupancy in intensive care units, but far from their alert level.
Last Tuesday, a specific mortality due to covid-19 was at 27.9 deaths in 14 days per one million inhabitants, which reveals a stable trend, but still above the threshold of 20.0 deaths defined by the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Disease Control (ECDC).
The percentage of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 between April 12 and 18 was 25%, a value that is above the % threshold and with an increasing trend, the report also highlights.
The analysis of the different indicators, the INSA and the DGS advance that the covid-19 epidemic is a much higher transmission, but with stable stability, and the health system has the capacity to adapt to an increase in demand for patients infected with the disease. SARS-CoV-2.
“Keep surveillance of immunity protection and recommend as individual protection measures and protection of 9 resistance groups”, recommend as individual protection measures and protection of 9 resistance groups”, they recommend as entities.