The Ministry of Public Health reveals that Thailand has found 73 Deltaacrons, yet not found violent The outbreak is now an Omicron strain.
On March 23, 2022, Dr. Supakit Sirilak, Director-General of the Department of Medical Sciences, announced the progress of surveillance for COVID-19 strains. stated that the COVID-19 outbreak In Thailand, almost all of them are now Omicron species. It is a subspecies BA.2 more than BA.1.
More than 500 samples of the entire genetic code were extracted every week. When broken down into subspecies of Omicron BA.2.2, 22 cases were infected in Thailand and 61 were infected with BA.2.3.
In addition, 73 Thai people have been infected with Delta-Omicron, or ‘deltacron’, and the report has been sent to GISAID.
Globally, more than 4,000 Deltaacron cases have been reported to GISAID, but GISAID has so far reported 64 cases, most of them over 50 in France. The remaining 4,000 are pending investigation.
Dr Supakit said that now the World Health Organization Also classified ‘deltacron’ as the only species to be monitored. No information has been found to spread faster than other species or not. As with the virulence and dormancy of this species, it has not been reported to be more aggressive or dormant than other species either.
However, the Ministry of Health is on the alert. And ask everyone to strictly follow the measures to prevent covids. and speed up vaccination with booster needles especially the 608 group
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