China News Service, July 12, reported that a Belgian researcher said on July 11 that a 90-year-old woman who was not vaccinated was infected with both Alpha and Beta strains at the same time, and died 5 days after seeing a doctor
[Infected with double mutant virus, 90-year-old woman died 5 days after admission]
[Infected with double mutant virus, 90-year-old woman died 5 days after admission] Researchers said that in March 2021, a 90-year-old woman living alone who had not been vaccinated was sent to the hospital for a fall and tested positive for the new crown
Later, when medical staff examined whether the deceased had any "variants of concern", they found that she was infected with both the alpha variant strain first discovered in the UK and the beta variant strain first discovered in South Africa
Wanke Bergen, a researcher and molecular biologist at the OLV Hospital in the central city of Aalster in Belgium, said: "These two variant viruses were circulating in Belgium at the time, so this lady may have contracted two different viruses from two different people
Wan Kebogen said that it is currently difficult to determine whether the infection of the two variants of the virus is related to the rapid deterioration of the patient's condition
No other similar cases have been published in the medical report, but she believes that "this phenomenon is likely to be underestimated
Currently, this Belgian study has been submitted to the European Conference on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), and it is one of the world's first "recorded" cases of double-variety infection
However, although no similar cases have been published in medical journals, there have been reports that several Brazilian scientists reported in January this year that two people were infected with two variant strains at the same time
Younger, a virologist at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, believes that it is not surprising to test two variant strains in a person, and the study of this situation is very important to further understand the characteristics of the coronavirus, including the possible symptoms of dual infection.
[Variants continue to spread, threatening economic recovery]
[Variants continue to spread, threatening economic recovery] At present, the delta variant virus has become the main epidemic strain in many places around the world
The finance ministers of the Group of Twenty (G20) countries warned on the 10th that the current global economic recovery is characterized by serious international and internal differences, and "there are still downside risks, especially the spread of the new crown virus.
The finance ministers of various countries have also issued warnings about "asynchronous vaccination" around the world.
French Minister of Economy Le Maire said, “The only threat to a sound and rapid economic recovery is a variant virus and a new wave of epidemics
According to data from the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 64% of the adult population in the EU has received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 44% have completed the vaccination
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