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11:17 | Lima, Jun. 13.
Last Wednesday, Health Minister Oscar Ugarte informed that the first case of the Indian variant had been detected in a 78-year-old patient in Arequipa region, where the cases and deaths are increasing.
In this sense, Oscar Escalante, head of INS National Public Health Center, told Andina news agency that this new variant has a higher transmissibility and warned about its potential to evade the effects of the vaccine. Even though the reduction of efficacy (of the vaccine) is not big, it is something we must try to solve as soon as possible, the researcher said.
450 samples from Arequipa region
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