Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hazel Laws has confirmed that the Lambda Variant is in circulation in St. Kitts and Nevis.
That announcement came during her presentation at a special Covid-19 Press Briefing on June 26.
Not much is known about the variant but the World Health Organization, (WHO) believes that Lambda has the potential to spread fast.
Classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 17, the lambda, or C.37, variant of the coronavirus has already been detected in 29 nations — seven of them in Latin America. In Peru, where it was identified in August, the lambda variant now accounts for 82% of new infections, and it is also being found in one in three confirmed cases in Chile. It is also spreading rapidly in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.
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The importation of the variant is linked to an inbound passenger who arrived in the Federation on May 9, 2021.
