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ARCHIVED - Spanish health authorities monitoring 7 Covid-19 variants of particular concern
According to data from a new report published on Monday (22 February), the 7 new strains have so far accounted for 916 cases of coronavirus in Spain.
The Spanish Ministry of Health has reported that there are currently 7 variants of coronavirus that are more transmissible, more virulent (causing more severe symptoms or higher mortality) or that may limit the effects of the vaccine which have so far caused 916 cases in Spain.
At the moment, according to the health authorities, the most important variants are the British (B.1.1.7), South African (B.1.351) and Brazilian (P.1) ones. However, the ‘Report on the epidemiological situation of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 and other variants of interest’ also highlights the importance of 2 others from the UK, 1 from California and 1 from Rio de Janeiro.
Ministry data reported that there have so far been 898 confirmed cases of the British variant (plus another 183 reported by unofficial sources), 6 of the South-African strain, 1 of the Brazilian strain (plus another 2 reported by unofficial sources), 11 of the Rio de Janeiro strain (2 diagnosed in Madrid and another 9 in the Canary Islands for which "epidemiological data is not yet available.”)
There was also 1 confirmed case in January of the B.1.525 strain first identified in the UK, which has also been detected in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the US and Canada.
The incidence of the British variant varies considerably from one Spanish region to another, the Ministry of Health reports. 145 of the 898 cases have been detected in Cantabria, 130 in Madrid and 117 in the Balearic Islands. Navarra has reported 90, Murcia 76, Castilla y León 72, Asturias 71, Valencia 64, Andalusia 59, Castilla-La Mancha 22, Galicia 12, the Basque Country, Extremadura and Melilla 9 each, La Rioja 5 and Catalonia 4. The Canary Islands have reported just 3 cases, Aragón 1 and Ceuta none.