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Rome, December 21, 2020 – IS an italian woman the prior to positive all new variant of Covid in the country. Even the partner, also returned to Fiumicino days ago from UK, where he had gone to work, it turned out infected. The two are isolated as are other family members and their close contacts. I am both asymptomatic: but the variant on him has not yet been declared. According to some sources there are in the Rome area, she would have cleaned herself in recent days, probably on a trip that resulted in the strong viral load that would help sequence the virus genome SARS-CoV-2 with the strain found in recent weeks in Great Britain. The genome, discovered for the first time in Italy, was isolated in the laboratories of the Celio military hospital in Rome. In Italy there would be other suspected cases in Bari, Palermo and Trieste.
What is the Covid variant in English and what are the risks?
Meanwhile, controls at airports increase, even if Italy i European countries they ran for cover suspend flights with Great Britain.
Experts: “The vaccine will protect us anyway”
Suspicious cases
In the meantime, there are other suspected cases: in the next few days we will have the results of the ongoing investigations at Spallanzani in Rome to determine whether a passenger who arrived yesterday In the afternoon in Fiumicino, a young Covid positive doctor has the so-called English variant. A suspicious case also in Puglia. A 25-year-old girl returned last Thursday to Bari from London with fever is under observation: the young woman tested positive for coronavirus. The Bari ASL has confirmed that investigations into the case are underway. The test will now be analyzed by the Foggia Zooprophylactic Institute to see if it is the English variant of the virus. All other passengers on the busy Ryanair flight will also be subject to the same controls. TO TriesteImmediately after the order to block air connections from the United Kingdom, a passenger on the flight from London tested positive and landed yesterday afternoon at the regional airport. This was announced by the deputy governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia with responsibility for Health, Riccardo Riccardi, who explained that “the person who tested positive, an Italian citizen, is asymptomatic and transferred to a Covid hotel in the Isonzo area, where he will stay the necessary time for its negativization “. TO Palermo are results three positive swabs and two doubts from molecular tests on 134 passengers and six crew members of the Ryanair flight from London and landed last night in Sicily. Rapid antigenic swabs had given negative result. Subsequent controls have at least three infected among the passengers, who are all in quarantine.
Minister Zampa’s appeal
“We appeal to all those who have circulated in England in the last 15 days or who have stayed there and arrived in Italy during this period, to report their presence and arrival to ASL and go immediately for a swab, even if they have already done it in England before arriving ”, is the appeal launched to the microphones of Radio 24 la Undersecretary of Health, Sandra Zampa. “It will be necessary that those who have returned from England immediately clean up what has been placed in the order, those who do not violate a strict provision, because yesterday the order was signed by the minister.” According to Zampa, for those who are about to take a flight to return to Italy, “European coordination is needed as soon as possible. Certainly our citizens cannot be left there, and they will have directions in the next few hours. The Farnesina is already there. working in this direction. “
Spallanzani: virus isolation began
At Spallanzani in Rome it began the isolation procedure the sequence of the virus to verify the ‘English variant’, announces the Lazio Crisis Unit. The checks will be carried out on the test carried out on the passenger who landed yesterday in Fiumicino and positive for the swab. The Regional Crisis Unit emphasizes: “The control plan worked, in a few minutes the flows were organized and the service was excellent. Thanks to the Uscar mobile units, the valuable collaboration of Aeroporti di Roma and Usmaf. All the laboratories of The Coronet Network of Lazio have been issued to contact the regional reference laboratory of the Spallanzani Institute in the case of positivity to molecular swabs from UK subjects ”.
It works from the end of September to November.
The European Center for Disease Control (ECDC), in a report published on its website, states that the English variant It has been circulating for a month: In fact, three sample sequences collected in Denmark and one in Australia, taken in November, were found to be linked to the British outbreak. A fact that indicates that “its international diffusion has already begun, although its scope is unknown.” Second Carlo Federico Bolt, Professor of Microbiology at UniCamillus and director of the Department of Microbiology of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, heard in the transmission of Agorà in Rai Tre, announced that when “this virus was characterized By the end of September was extremely rare, but now it has become Very often and it’s coming back dominant because it replicates more. The news was not released in September because it was technical information, now it is becoming public health information ”.
Attention, but don’t panic
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza: “It is a variant that makes faster virus, The first information says that it does not seem to do any more damage but it does cause more infections and this is still a very serious problem. From very early information, it appears that vaccines may work anyway, but more robust information is needed. “At the moment, virologists tend to exclude that the vaccine is not effective for this new strain.
For its part, the WHO has issued a clear warning to European countries asking that strengthen measures anti-Covid 19, due to the new variant of the virus. “Across Europe, where transmission is intense and widespread, countries must increase their capacity to sequence the virus while waiting to learn more about the risks posed by the variant.” Today at 11am for the EU emergency meeting.
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