More than half of Colombia's new crown cases in the first half of the year were caused by the Myu strain

Xinhua News Agency, Bogota, September 5 (Reporter Gao Chunyu) Ospina, President of the Colombian National Institutes of Health , said on the 5th that the gene sequencing results showed that among the new coronavirus infection cases reported in Colombia from January to June this year, 53% were infected with the Miao strain of the mutated new coronavirus
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The mutant new coronavirus B.
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621 was first confirmed in Colombia in January this year
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The World Health Organization named it the Miu strain and recently listed it as a variant strain requiring attention, and its impact level is lower than the variant strain requiring attention to which the Delta strain belongs

Ospina told local media that the rapid spread of the Delta strain is a "real threat" to Colombia
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Relevant departments are analyzing the confirmed cases of new crowns reported in the country in August to determine the proportion of Delta strain infections.

Colombia is the fourth largest economy in Latin America, and its population of 51 million ranks third in Latin America

The Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Security recently stated that despite the recent low level of Colombia's new crown infection rate, the country may usher in the fourth wave of new crown epidemics in late October
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However, as the scope of Colombia's new crown vaccination continues to expand, indicators such as the duration of the fourth wave of the peak of the epidemic and the number of staged deaths may be better than the country's third wave of the peak of the new crown