21.07.2021 – 21:50
The Delta variant of COVID has become prevalent in many countries of the world, including neighboring countries with us, while suspicions are strong that this mutation has reached our country as well.
This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Health, Mira Rakacolli, who in the studio of “Repolitix”, said that although there is still no official confirmation of the arrival of this variant, the increase of new cases of infection was cloud in the last two days, is disturbing.
“We have strong doubts about the Delta variant, but we do not have official confirmation yet. In the analysis that is done, the specialists say that there are signals that should be from Delta, but we are waiting for a confirmation in the laboratories that make these analyzes more detailed. In this situation, where there are confirmations in Kosovo, Greece and Macedonia, there is no way it can not be in Albania, but things must be confirmed to be published “, said Rakacolli.
The Deputy Minister appealed to the citizens to ‘run’ to be vaccinated and to respect the anti-COVID measures that are in force, because, as Rakacolli pointed out, it does not matter what variant of the virus is, the important fact is that infection prevention measures are the same.
“We are on alert to see what will happen because despite the stable situation of this last month, we have a slight increase in cases. But we have to wait to see the trend of how things will go. The most important monitoring indicator of the situation is the number of fatalities and patients in intensive care. We can not say that the virus is weaker in this period. You can not judge the aggressiveness of the virus with as much spread as they have been during this period, but with the analysis done is very obvious the role of vaccines in this situation. We have an increase in cases, it does not matter what the variant is, the important thing is that the measures are the same for everyone. The increase of cases is worrying and we have to run through the vaccination centers, every citizen must continue the measures and order towards the vaccination. “The pandemic is not over,” she added.