The nasobuco used by Cubans does not protect before an omicron, warns one of the creators of sovereign 02
The chemist Daniel García Rivera, one of the creators of the Cuban anticovid sovereign 02 vaccine, warned that fabric nasobucos, the means of protection used by Cubans on foot from the beginning of the pandemic to the inaccessibility of others of higher quality, they might not be enough before the high capacity for the infection of an omicron.
"Almost all of us use nasobucos of a fabric or material that is not made to avoid infection with this virus.It doesn't matter that we use it double, it's not done for that, "he warned in a publication on his Facebook wall.
"Many times it is made home, with love and good taste, sometimes combines with outer and inside clothes, but the reality is that if you are in a closed place and near an infected, it will not be able to stop a precision projectileas is an omicron, "he wrote.
García Rivera stressed that with the new variant of the virus "the protection measures must be taken to the extreme".
The scientist warned that a fabric nasobuco, "in closed spaces is as if it were a tin shield against a tracer bullet.He thinks that omicron has reached the transmissibility limit of viruses that infect humans, which is measles ".
En el foro de la publicación de Rivera, el científico cubano Amílcar Pérez Riverol señaló que "las máscaras, respiradores tipo N95, KN95 o FFP2 funcionan contra todas las variantes, incluida Ómicron y reducen el contagio a >1-2%.Who can, it is worth investing in some to use in situations of agglomeration in interior environments and reuse (which is possible) ".
However, Cuban leaders are shown on television and their public appearances using FFP2 and N95 masks.The disposable masks in the three -layer version are sold through virtual government stores as a gift bazaar, where the 50 units box costs 10.52 dollars.
Common and currents Cubans, on the other hand, have had to resort from the beginning of the pandemic to artisanal nasobucos, manufactured mostly at home without safety and efficiency guarantees and with the few fabrics by hand.
At the end of December, Rivera himself, a professor at the University of Havana, director of the chemical and biomolecular synthesis laboratory linked to the state Biocubafarma and president of the Latin American Federation of Chemical Associations, warned of what would come for Cuba before the expansionof omicron in neighboring countries.
"I don't stop saying it, but we continue doing concerts.As if we did not know what is happening in the world.MINSAP, Give the voice of alert please.You have to stop everything already, "he asked before the silence of the authorities.
Although the Cuban Ministry of Public Health) decided.943 on last day.
Although the Cuban authorities have not specified the degree of responsibility for the expansion of the omicron variant in the increase of the patients, in a recent government meeting it was reported that this has already been sequenced in patients from 11 provinces.
In spite of this, the government makes a caravan in greeting to the new anniversary of the arrival of Fidel Castro that crosses the country and brings together hundreds of people in agglomerations and political ceremonies.
