MADRID (Reuters) -Spain has detected its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a fifty one-year-historic man who arrived from South Africa on Sunday after a layover in Amsterdam, Madrid's regional fitness authority referred to on Monday as Spain's normal infection rate rose.
The microbiology unit at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon sanatorium, which sequenced and established the brand new variant, brought in a separate publish on Twitter that the affected person became in fair condition with mild signs.
The latest outbreak, first mentioned in southern Africa, caused a global flurry of border restrictions and flight route suspensions over the weekend amid fears of a return to uncontrolled contagion.
The closely mutated Omicron variant is probably going to spread internationally and poses a really high risk of infection surges that might have "severe consequences" in some places, the area health firm (WHO) noted on Monday.
Spain's rolling 14-day CO VID-19 infection expense rose to 199 per 100,000 on Monday from 172 on Friday, with pretty much 23,000 circumstances detected over the weekend, health ministry statistics confirmed, but the fee remains lower than in nations such as Austria, Germany, or the Netherlands.
Spain has registered 5,153,923 infections and 88,008 deaths considering the pandemic started. The dying toll rose through 53 from Friday.
(Reporting by using Clara-Laeila Laudette, Jesus Aguado and Andrei Khalip, enhancing via Bernadette Baum)
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