Department of Science reveals that Thailand found Omicron 99.7%, found 4 cases, has a chance of being BA.2.2, indicating that it is still urgently inconclusive, causing “Hong Kong” to become more infected and die.
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On March 14, 2022, Dr. Supakit Sirilak, Director-General of the Department of Medical Sciences Announcement of surveillance for strains and mutations of coviral 19 that from surveillance last week, 5-11 March 2022, of 1,967 cases, found that only 6 delta species left. The remaining 0.3% were 1,961 omikron species, representing 99.7% when the omikron subspecies were identified. The subspecies BA.3 have not yet been found.
Supakit continued that 610 cases of subspecies BA.1 and 1,272 cases of subspecies BA.2 accounted for 67.6%, an increase of 52% from the previous week when isolated domestic infections were isolated. 1,383 samples were found to be BA.2 to 971 samples, representing 70.2%. Considering the weekly number of BA.2, it was found that the proportion of BA.2 was increasing and spreading in all health zones across the country. Nearly all health districts accounted for more than half of BA.2. The exception was health zones 1 and 11, which were less than half the proportion. However, the BA.2 subspecies has already begun to crowd BA.1 because it spreads 1.4 times faster.
Department of Science reveals that Thailand found Omicron 99.7%, found 4 cases, has a chance of being BA.2.2, indicating that it is still urgently unable to conclude that “Hong Kong”
“I want to be confident in the system that we have put in place. We test by coding the whole body. and send data to the GISAID world database system every week 500-600 samples, so if something is wrong we will find it for sure. For the latest week, March 7-13, we submitted 673 whole-body transcripts, most of them 333 samples of OMicron BA.1.1, followed by 135 BA.2 samples, while the GISAID data. From around the world, it is still the most BA.1 strain, while BA.2 is still found about 2.5 hundred thousand cases, while BA.3 is still at the level of more than 500 samples,” said Dr. Supakit.
Dr. Supakit continued that for the subspecies BA.2, it was found that there were also subspecies BA.2.1, BA.2.2 and BA.2.3, which GISAID has not yet determined the species name BA.2.2. official Because it has to wait to review and analyze various data first to avoid errors like the case of the contaminated “deltacron” from Cyprus, it is expected that the next few days will be clear. Initially, 68 cases of BA.2.2 were transmitted into GISAID, with mutations at the site of the I1221T spike protein. Submissions were smaller than those found in Hong Kong, 386 and the UK, 289. which is a different line It was also less common than other subspecies, BA.2.1 (532 cases) and BA.2.3 (1,938 cases).
“As for the Hong Kong case where BA.2.2 is found and there is a high number of infections and deaths, It is too early to conclude that it was caused by BA.2.2, because today’s death was an infection at least 7-8 days ago, or months if treatment was prolonged. to provoke death While the generic BA.2 omikron is already infected quickly. If it gets stuck very quickly and the medical system can’t support it In addition, there is no evidence that it causes more lung pathology or more organ damage. Therefore it takes time to prove. While the UK where BA.2.2 was found, there was no increase in the number of cases of infection or death,” said Dr. Supakit.
Dr. Supakit said that for Thailand, we have decrypted the whole gene and found 4 cases that have a chance of being a BA.2.2 species, but because GISAID has not yet determined a clear name. Therefore, we have to wait for GISAID first, with 4 of them being foreigners, 1 case and 3 Thai people. The details are still being analyzed. However, don’t worry. There are no signs of concern yet. The World Health Organization is monitoring and assessing whether Has the spread been rapid, severe, or has made it more immune to infections or vaccines? The Department of Medical Sciences has been monitoring and monitoring all the time.
Dr. Throne Upaphong, deputy director-general of the Department of Medical Sciences, said Hong Kong’s more infections and more deaths were reported. Must follow up on other information as well. Hong Kong has a population of 7.6 million, with 250,000 confirmed cases in the past seven days, up from 50,000 in the past 7 days and 1,900 deaths in the past seven days, unusual among all countries facing the outbreak. Omikron which every country is not different from the original except Hong Kong therefore need to follow up on the information and need to look at whether it is an elderly person or not Are there any vaccinations?