The Canary Islands Health Service has reported two possible cases of Covid of the new South African variant, which are currently being investigated. "The Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria is in the process of sequencing two samples taken from two people who tested positive for Covid-19 to determine if the variant of the strain is the one called Ómicron", they explain in a statement.
These are two middle-aged men, with the complete vaccination schedule, who arrived from South Africa a few days ago. "After presenting symptoms compatible with Covid-19 and confirming their positive result, they are already complying with isolation in their respective homes and the tracing of their close contacts has begun, according to the protocol", specifies the Ministry of Health, which adds that "both cases do not present apparent epidemiological relationship between each other".
In addition, it anticipates that the results of the sequencing of both samples "will be known and communicated in the coming days, once the process is completed, probably at the beginning of next week."