14 cases of Delta Variant confirmed in Slovakia

14 cases of Delta Variant confirmed in Slovakia

A total of 14 cases of the delta variant of coronavirus have been confirmed by routine sequencing in Slovakia to date, Public Health Authority (UVZ) spokesperson Dasa Rackova informed on Thursday. According to Rackova, this mainly concerns people who have returned from abroad and their close contacts. However, the delta variant has also been identified in a person who had not been abroad. Eleven of the infected people had been vaccinated and three had not.
UVZ further reported that the vaccinated people were not badly affected by the disease and were not admitted to hospital. Meanwhile, one non-vaccinated person had to undergo hospital treatment. "All the anti-epidemic measures in this connection have been provided by the respective regional public health authorities, and hygienists have the situation under control," stated UVZ.
"Thanks to cooperation between all the laboratories involved, we've managed to reduce significantly the time between taking samples from patients and providing the results of the sequencing - to four days," said molecular biologist Anna Kalinakova. "In this way we can have an up-to-date overview of the spread of individual variants among the population and respond to it appropriately," she said.
Experts warn that the delta variant is much more infectious than the alfa variant that prevails in Slovakia. The delta variant has started to become dominant in several European countries. UVZ stressed that the only protection against life-threatening cases is vaccination. Hygienists called on people to respect anti-pandemic measures, especially after they return from abroad.
At the end of June 6,953 coronavirus-positive cases were identified among people following their first jab (0.35 percent) and 1,919 among people who had been vaccinated twice (0.12 percent). "These figures match up with the declared effectiveness of the vaccines," added UVZ.

Source: TASR

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