Original title: General news: Omi Keron first appeared in Myanmar and Vietnam as the main strain in the United States and Holland
Comprehensive reports from foreign correspondents of Xinhua News Agency: Recently, Myanmar and Vietnam respectively reported the first cases of Omi Kiron strain infection in their respective countries. At the same time, the Omi Keron strain replaced the Delta strain and became the main new coronavirus circulating in the United States and the Netherlands. The Omi Keron strain puts the British health service in a “state of war.”
According to reports from the Ministry of Health of Myanmar on the 28th, the country’s health department performed genome sequencing on samples of 30 imported confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the 14th of this month. The results obtained on the 28th showed that 4 Burmese who returned by plane from Dubai, UAE were infected. Omi Keron strain. This is the first reported case of infection with this strain in Myanmar.
The data released by the Ministry of Health of Myanmar on the evening of the 28th showed that compared with the previous day, there were 187 new confirmed cases of new crown in the country, with a total of 530,000 confirmed cases; 3 new deaths and a total of 19,260 deaths.
The Ministry of Health of Vietnam confirmed on the 28th that the country had found the first case of Omi Keron strain infection. The infected person arrived at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport by flight from the United Kingdom on the 19th of this month. After entering the country, their new crown test results were positive. The genome sequencing results of the sample announced on the 21st confirmed that this person was infected with the Omi Keron strain.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, on the 28th, there were 14,440 new confirmed cases of new crowns in the country and 215 new deaths; as of the 28th, Vietnam had a total of 1,680,985 confirmed cases of new crowns and a total of 31,632 deaths.
The epidemic model data published on the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 28th showed that in the week ending December 25, new cases of Omi Kiron strain accounted for 58.6% of the total number of new cases of new crowns that week. Omi Keron has replaced the Delta strain as the main epidemic strain in the United States.
According to data released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States on the 28th, the United States has 512,553 new confirmed cases of new crowns compared with the previous day, which is the highest number of new confirmed cases in a single day since the outbreak; the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeds 53.02 million; The cumulative deaths exceeded 819,700.
The National Institute of Public Health and Environment of the Netherlands said on the 28th that in the past 7 days, the country’s Omi Kiron strain infections have exceeded half of the total number of new coronavirus infections, thus replacing the Delta strain and becoming the The main strain circulating in the Netherlands.
According to figures released by the agency on the 28th, in the past 7 days, there were 84,398 new confirmed cases of new crown in the Netherlands and 1,063 new hospital admissions. As of the 28th, the Netherlands has accumulated 3,085,553 confirmed cases of new crown.
According to data released by the British Health and Security Agency on the 28th, there were 17,269 new cases of Omi Keron strain infection in the country that day, and a total of 177,201 cases were confirmed. The Secretary of Health of the United Kingdom Said Javid previously pointed out that the actual number of infections with the Omi Keron strain in his country was “significantly higher” than the official data.
Steven Powys, director of national medical affairs for the British National Health System, previously warned that as the Omi Keron strain swept across the UK, its health services were already in a “state of war.” According to data released by the British government on the 28th, compared with the previous day, there were 129471 new confirmed cases of new crown in the country, with a total of 12,338,676 confirmed cases; 18 new deaths and a total of 148,021 deaths (note holder: Wang Zhao; participating reporter: Zhang Dongqiang) , Che Hongliang, Tao Jun, Wang Xiangjiang, Tan Jingjing, Guo Shuang)
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