Mozambique has already sent 400 samples suspected of being infected with the Indian variant of COVID-19 for testing in neighboring South Africa. These samples were sent to the Genotyping reference laboratory. located in the South African province of Kwazulu Natal, as the country still does not have the capacity to track that mutation of the SARS-COV-2 virus. are in the queue for testing. It’s a queue, because the laboratory is a reference for many countries. In addition to the pandemic in South Africa itself, it has been supporting other countries, including Mozambique. , to receive the results of the other sequences, “said Sofia Viegas, National Director of Public Health Laboratories, at the National Health Institute today, guaranteeing that” next tions analyzed so far, the Indian variant has not been detected “. However, Mozambique is on the way towards creating internal capacity for testing the Indian variant and expects until October to be able to carry out tests at the national level.” Right now, we already have equipment to perform the sequencing and training has already been carried out on two health professionals, two laboratory techniques. They carry out the training in Namibia and we hope, now, that the equipment distribution company will also do the training locally and part of the reagents “, added Viegas. What the country expects is that” by October this year, we will have the technique implemented, validated so that we can produce the sequences ourselves. “Named B.1.617, the variant of the Coronavirus originating in India has already, according to the World Health Organization, been detected in 44 countries, one of which is neighboring South Africa. South, home to the largest Mozambican community in the diaspora 16 MORE POSITIVE CASES AND TWO RECOVERED The information on suspected cases of the Indian variant was advanced on a day when the country added 16 more positive cases to the national accounts of COVID-19, which increased the total number of cases already registered by the authorities, in the national territory, to 70,606. At the rate of new infections, recoveries have also evolved, with the record of only two recovered from yesterday to today and. Thus, the recovered are 69,100. Once again, the country did not register deaths due to the new Coronavirus, maintaining the total number of deaths at 831. Source: O País
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