The Federal District has two cases of Covid-19 confirmed by the omicron variant, initially identified in South Africa.
The information was confirmed by members of the Federal District government. However, the health department has not released more information about the case.
With that, Brazil now has five confirmed cases of the disease by the new variant. The other three are in São Paulo. The Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, participates in the meeting on the surveillance and monitoring of omicrons in Brazil, this Thursday (2).
The São Paulo Health Department confirmed this Wednesday (1st) the third case of the omicron variant in the state. This is a 28-year-old man who arrived from Ethiopia over the weekend and tested positive for Covid-19. He was already isolated in Guarulhos, in Greater São Paulo, and under surveillance by the municipality.
According to the folder, he continues without showing symptoms of the disease and had already been vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The sequencing was analyzed by the Instituto Adolfo Lutz.
The first two cases of the new variant in the country, analyzed by Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, are two missionaries, a 41-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman. The couple, asymptomatic and equally immunized, are isolated in the home of relatives in the capital. São Paulo.
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