UK announces nine cases of omicron and anticipates "dozens more"

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The United Kingdom has already confirmed nine cases of the

variant

of the coronavirus and anticipated, through the Ministry of Health, that during the next few days

.

The country, which has launched a scientific 'offensive' to track any possible outbreak of the new mutation of the virus, is not considering re-implementing major restrictions within its borders for the moment, but it has increased controls for travelers who come to him. While waiting for the meeting between the G7 Health Ministers and the final conclusions of the study of the new variant, the Government calls for a tense calm on the eve of a Christmas that may be marked by the third dose of the vaccine.

Tense because, as much as

, head of Health, has said that they are not "even close" to recovering the confinement restrictions, the message that comes from the official bodies is already beginning to sound that of the first year and a half of the pandemic. In what has been her first coronavirus-related appearance in months, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's chief minister, has once again put on the table the possibility of demanding an

those who arrive in the territory

and two PCR tests on days two and eight after landing, a proposal that Wales has also joined. "It is that the incubation period can exceed 48 hours", has justified the independence leader. There, in Scotland, four cases have been confirmed this morning in Lanarkshire and another two in the Glasgow area, but what worries the authorities the most is that several of them are the result of a contagion and not a trip to southern Africa .

In the rest of the country, where only three positive omicrons have been confirmed so far,

come into force

. The test corresponding to day two after arrival is once again a PCR, after being antigens for a short period of time, and the need to quarantine is recovered until the result is received

. In the day-to-day, the mask is once again mandatory in stores and public transport. Additionally, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswaitini, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Angola have been placed on the international arrivals red list.

"In some of those that we have evidence of, there is the circumstance of

, yes, and that what indicates to us is that there must be some type of community transmission of this particular variant," they explain from the Scottish Government to the BBC . "That poses challenges, of course, especially about the best way to cut the transmission, but for now what we have done is to concentrate our efforts on tracking the cases." At the moment, it is unknown if this new variant is more transmissible, more deadly or if it manages to evade the immunity provided by currently inoculated vaccines, but the World Health Organization has already issued a

Taking into account that it takes about a week to carry out a genomic sequencing of the result of a PCR test, the authorities assume that part of the positives recorded during the last week may belong to the omicron variant. That is why, in cases considered suspicious, a protocol has been put in place to trace close contacts, confine them and carry out intensive testing to monitor any possible outbreak.

In this sense, another of the ways that the health authorities of the United Kingdom are studying is to

, which is why, for example, the English government has announced that six million doses will be administered over the next three weeks. In this way, the periods between the second and third doses would be reduced so that the population arrives as immunized as possible for a Christmas that is anticipated to be convulsive in the hospital system.

"It is inevitable that at some point we will have to offer a third dose to everyone, but we have to make sure that the first to receive it are the most vulnerable so that their natural immunity levels are as high as possible," says Anthony Harden, Vice Chairman of the British Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI).

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