The health authorities are not yet able to determine the presence of the new variant of the Coronavirus in Haiti to the epidemic of fever and influenza that has settled in the country for several weeks.
The Minister of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Alex Larsen, met, Thursday, the press, in the presence of executives including the DG of this entity, Lauré Adrien, around the issue.
The opportunity for Dr. Larsen to indicate that it is not appropriate to treat this issue with haste taking exception to information circulating on social networks reporting the presence of the new variant Omicron in the country.
“We are specialists that the population can trust”, reassured the MSPP.
For the DG of the institution, Lauré Andrien, people are generally flu in this season. However, he said, they are much more likely to contract the flu in this period.
On the other hand, Lauré Adrien said that the officials of the National Laboratory have conducted tests to detect the presence or not of the new variant of the coronavirus on the national territory.
The results will be awaited, said the director general of the MSPP adding that these tests will be conducted in foreign laboratories.
In the meantime, Lauré Andrien urges the members of the population to respect the barrier gestures including the regular washing of hands with soap, the use of hydro-alcoholic products and the wearing of masks, to protect themselves from the new variant of the coronavirus, omicron.