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The vice president of the National Society of Family Medicine, Gindrovel Dumitra, declared this Sunday, after the first information about the possible presence of the new strain of coronavirus in Romania, that the anti-Covid vaccine should be effective against this variant.
The doctor Gindrovel Dumitra assures that the new strain from Great Britain that is more contagious, although it is not confirmed in this case, “it will only be a matter of time until it reaches Romania”.
“It is a strain that only has higher infectivity and does not cause more serious cases. That is the good news.
The bad news is the increase in contagion, which can bring a greater number of diseases in a unit of time and can return us to the situation in which we will once again have a very high number of cases and above all a large number of cases in the ATI department. number of deaths. That matters in the end.
The information that we have so far does not worry us, because, terribly, the mechanisms of action that we have in the case of vaccines should work and especially in the way in which antibodies are formed after the current action of the vaccine. The data is still partial. They are encouraging. They tell us that at the moment we have no cause for concern from this perspective, but we are also waiting for the final results, to see how it will behave in the population.
This example is an argument why we need to get vaccinated as soon as possible, because there are changes in the virus and it is possible that in the near future there will be some changes that will cause problems for people who have been vaccinated and we can become infected. But this is not the case at this time.
The sooner we get vaccinated, the less traffic will be reduced and the possibility of such changes will be less and less, ”Gindrovel Dumitra told Digi24.
He says that “anyone who becomes ill is at risk of re-infection with any other strain in the near future.”
“There is data that we have that tells us that more than 3 months after the first infection, it is possible to have a reinfection,” said the doctor.
Cătălin Apostolescu, the spokesman for the Matei Balș Institute in Bucharest, stated on Digi24 that doctors will know on Monday or Tuesday, with certainty, if the new strain of the virus has reached Romania.
Editing: Alexandru Costea
