{"id":33915,"date":"2022-04-05T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33915"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:10:10","slug":"albania-confirms-presence-of-2-new-omicron-strains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania-confirms-presence-of-2-new-omicron-strains\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania confirms presence of 2 new Omicron strains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical authorities confirmed on Tuesday the presence of two new Omicron strains in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>After testing 556 samples, the Institute of Public Health (ISHP) detected the strains BA1 and BA2.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data provided by the Institute:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>86%(476) BA1 sample<\/li>\n<li>8.3%(46) BA2 sample<\/li>\n<li>3% (18) \u00a0Delta sample<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shp\u00ebrndarja e rastee BA2 \u00ebsht\u00eb m\u00eb e lart\u00eb n\u00eb komunitet krahasuar me rastet spitalore.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution of BA2 cases is higher in the community compared to hospital cases.<\/p>\n<p>ISHP believes that this variant will be dominant as it is highly contagious.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta strain is also present, but on a very low percentage, authorities noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Institute called on citizens to get vaccinated in order to avoid another wave of infections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/28\/covid-test-figures-in-huge-disproportion-to-number-of-travellers-from-albania\/\">COVID test figures in huge disproportion to number of travellers from Albania<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/17\/covid-19-made-private-labs-wealthier\/\">COVID-19 made private labs wealthier<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical authorities confirmed on Tuesday the presence of two new Omicron strains in Albania. After testing 556 samples, the Institute of Public Health (ISHP) detected the strains BA1 and BA2. According to the data provided by the Institute: 86%(476) BA1 sample 8.3%(46) BA2 sample 3% (18) \u00a0Delta sample Shp\u00ebrndarja e rastee BA2 \u00ebsht\u00eb m\u00eb e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,269,1117,151,1115,1116,1118],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albania confirms presence of 2 new Omicron strains - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania-confirms-presence-of-2-new-omicron-strains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albania confirms presence of 2 new Omicron strains - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Medical authorities confirmed on Tuesday the presence of two new Omicron strains in Albania. 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