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According to the National Institute of Health, it is a 39-year-old woman who lives in Leticia, and a 79-year-old man.
On the afternoon of this Sunday, January 31, the National Institute of Health (INS) confirmed that two Colombian cases have already been identified with the P1 variant, which has been detected in the Brazilian Amazon. (Lea Minsalud confirms Brazilian lineage of the coronavirus in Colombia)
As the INS assures in a brief press release, it is a 39-year-old patient who resides in Leticia (Amazonas), who presented symptoms on January 10 and was diagnosed with COVID-19 on the 15th of this month. Your home is in good condition at this time.
The second case is a 79-year-old man, who belongs to an indigenous ethnic group from the Amazon. After presenting symptoms on January 2 and consulting the municipal hospital, he was hospitalized. His diagnosis was acute respiratory infection due to COVID-19. He also had diabetes. He is currently in an intensive care unit in another city.
Yesterday, through a statement, Julián Fernández Niño, director of Epidemiology of the Minsalud, had warned that there was still no evidence that the variant circulated in the Colombian Amazon in an autochthonous way. “But with a border of more than 1,600 km along the Amazon this is likely to happen soon,” he said. A few days ago, in fact, the Government had ordered the cancellation of flights from Brazil and from Leticia. (You can read: Colombia suspends flights from Brazil due to coronavirus lineage)
Although there are still many doubts to be resolved, a few weeks ago a group of scientists led by Nuno Faria from Imperial College London published an article confirming that there is an increase in this lineage in the Amazon region of Brazil.
“These findings indicate local transmission and a possible increase in this lineage in the Amazon region,” they pointed out. It can be potentially associated with an increase in transmissibility or a propensity for reinfection of individuals. “It contains several mutations of possible biological importance,” they noted.
