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08:54 | Lima, Jan. 9. What has been found is that this variant increases the contagion (capacity) between 40 and 70%. That means if SARS-CoV-2 is already highly contagious, now this variant can cause contagions to occur much faster and to a greater amount of people. If one (person) used to infect 2 or 3 people, starting now these will be 5, 6, or 7 people, he indicated.
According to Dr. Suarez, viruses undergo mutations in all epidemics, and that happens with the influenza virus.
The expert added that there are four characteristics observed in viruses: infectivity (that is, of all those who have been exposed to it, how many become infected); pathogenicity (of all those who are infected, how many become ill), virulence (of all those who get sick, how many become serious cases); and lethality (of all those seriously ill, how many die).
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Around 4 million people might already have had the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Peru´s Lima Metropolitan Area, according to seroprevalence studies conducted by the Ministry of Health (Minsa) in order to measure the evolution of the pandemic in Peru.
This information was confirmed by Deputy Public Health Minister Luis Suarez, in an interview with Andina news agency, in which he announced that the country is in final negotiations with three laboratories developing COVID-19 vaccines. The seroprevalence in the Lima Metropolitan Area is 39.6%, which means that nearly 4 million of its 10 . . .
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