PHILIPSBURG:--- The ARS of Guadeloupe and St. Martin announced that the UK variant has been identified on St. Martin and Guadeloupe. A press release from the ARS states that five cases of the UK variant have been identified in Guadeloupe while four were identified on St. Martin.
These are essentially young people, health authorities said. Samples had been sent to the National Reference Center for further analysis. Nine had the English variant characteristics.
As foreseen in the procedure, ongoing contact tracing has been strengthened and investigations looking for expanded risk contacts around these people detected positive.
Invited from France Info on Tuesday, February 9, Minister of Health Olivier Véran said that the presence of Covid-19 variants in ultramarine territories could lead the government ′′ to change the strategy ′′ vaccination overseas. This could go through using messenger RNA vaccine, ′′ which seems more effective on South African variants ".
The curve of the evolution of Covid-19 contamination seems to want to go up again. As a reminder, from 1 to 7 February 2021, 103 new positive cases were detected in the territory (tested in Guadeloupe and residing there). This brings the number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 9 in Guadeloupe.
At present, 23 positive cases of virus variants have been detected in Martinique.
