For the first case of the Omicron variant that was confirmed in our country and specifically in Chania, Crete, George Sourvinos, Professor of Clinical Virology, spoke, in whose laboratory the variant strain was identified in the patient.
The traveler’s history was what started the whole process (he had traveled to South Africa and arrived in our country on November 26) and his insistence to be tested with successive rapid tests and with their positivity to proceed to a diagnostic center for pcr test, said the professor
The medical center contacted the laboratory, as Mr. Sourvinos told him, where a genomic test was performed.
He also stated that the patient no longer has symptoms and remains a resident has not had to come
“The tracing started earlier, days before the result of the genomic analysis”, the professor stressed at the same time and added that the first cycle of results was negative.
Mr. Sourvinos also described the situation at which the origin of the case is known as happy. “We are vigilant and prepared as a country and as EODY for the occurrence of other cases in the community. It was a conjuncture that was located in Chania. “Other such cases will occur,” he added
“We are facing the unknown and we need more scientific data,” he said of the Omicron mutation.
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