The first death caused by the omicron variant of the coronavirus in Brazil was confirmed this Thursday (6) by the health department of Aparecida de Goiânia, municipality of Goiás.
A 68-year-old man died after testing positive for the new strain in the city, which is in Greater Goiânia.
The patient was hypertensive and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. According to the folder, the man was immunized with two doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 from the primary scheme and also with the booster dose.
A study carried out through genomic sequencing in the city detected the circulation of 90% of the ômicron variant in the cases of coronavirus registered in Aparecida de Goiânia.
On Thursday night, the state health department also confirmed the death caused by the omicron.
The ômicron variant already represents 92.6% of positive tests for the detection of Covid in Brazil, indicates a survey carried out by laboratories in the country released this Thursday.
In the previous version of the same study, released on December 29, the strain appeared with a predominance of 31.7%.
The new work, carried out from December 26 to January 1, was coordinated by the ITpS (All for Health Institute) in partnership with the laboratories Dasa and DB Molecular.
The investigation involved more than 2,400 special RT-PCR tests performed at the two laboratory networks. It was thus found that 337 were positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Among these, 312 (92.6%) were from infections caused by the new variant.
According to ITpS, within the days of the survey, the strain was found in 80 municipalities in eight Brazilian states: Bahia, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Tocantins, in addition to the Federal District.
The omicron was initially sequenced in South Africa in November last year. Preliminary data indicate that it is more transmissible than other variants, such as delta, although it does not develop serious conditions in many of those infected.
The speed of contagion of the variant is pointed out as the cause of the increase in cases of Covid in Brazil registered in recent days. The moving average of cases has now reached 9,874, up 223% from two weeks ago.
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