The Ministry of Health of Ukraine reported the emergence of a new subvariant of the FLiRT coronavirus, which, according to preliminary data, does not cause severe forms of the disease in vaccinated individuals.
The new subvariant of the coronavirus "Omicron" - "FLiRT" does not cause severe forms of the disease in people who are vaccinated or have revaccination in cases where it is indicated. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Health, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Ihor Kuzin during a briefing.
We now really see that the incidence of COVID is increasing significantly in the territory of the European Union and in the United States. Also, the same situation is observed in Ukraine, if in July we had a little more than 11 thousand..., then conditionally in June we observed 2 thousand cases, then we see a significant increase in July
Kuzin noted that the level of load on the hospital system in terms of hospitalization is not so great.
The level of load on the hospital system in terms of hospitalization is not so high in percentage, because we see that just over 2.5 thousand people are in inpatient treatment, and this is absolutely normal for such a peak rise. Those countries that reported an increase in the incidence, they also identified it as a new subtype of the “Omicron” strain – “FLiRT
He reminded that five cases of the new subvariant of the "Omicron" - "FLiRT" coronavirus have already been recorded on the territory of Ukraine.
"We already have five positive samples as a result of whole-genome sequencing. I would like to remind you that this subspecies appeared in March of this year. In many countries it started to spread very quickly, but luckily it's all a mutation around one large group of Omicron and so it's a subspecies that doesn't cause severe disease in people who are vaccinated or revaccinated in cases where it is shown to them," said Kuzin.
He also noted that the observed indicators do not yet indicate that the epidemic season has begun, or that restrictive measures should be introduced.
Therefore, such indicators, which we are currently observing in Ukraine, do not yet indicate that the epidemic season has begun, or that it is necessary to introduce some specific restrictive measures in some specific territories. But really, the indicators are quite high and not typical given the fact that usually we started to observe the first growth starting from September. Here, a little earlier, that is, one month earlier, we already see growth
