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This Thursday, Dainis Širovas, head of the hospital in the central city of Ugre, announced that in this medical institution cases of infection with a new strain of coronavirus had been detected by doctors and patients.
According to him, the new strain of the virus is considered more contagious and dangerous; causes severe symptoms. Shirov said the doctors were concerned.
However, Ilze Arraja, representative of the SPKC, said that after analyzing the samples taken in the laboratories, so far no infection with the new strain of coronavirus has been detected in Latvia.
The SPKC noted that a new strain of coronavirus, recently discovered in the UK, does not cause more severe symptoms in infected people than pathogens in strains prevalent so far, but is believed to be much more contagious.
Shirov later said that a new strain of coronavirus among COVID-19 patients treated at his hospital had not yet been detected by laboratory tests, but increased infectivity and more severe symptoms in those infected suggested that the current spread it was very different from the spring. pandemic wave.
In response to reports of the spread of a new strain of the virus in the UK, Latvia banned the movement of passengers to and from the UK from December 21 to January 1. At present, all people arriving in Latvia from the UK and South Africa are required to undergo COVID-19 testing and remain in isolation for 10 days.
Previously, the Center for Disease Prevention and Control reported that cases of the new strain of the virus had also been reported in Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland and Australia.
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