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The Covid variant has landed in Italy: a couple from Rome are currently isolated after a positive swab that confirmed the infection of the “English virus”.
Alarm also for a 25-year-old from Puglia who landed in Bari last Thursday. As reported by Repubblica, the girl, upon returning from London, would have tested positive for hyssop. At the moment, all analyzes are being carried out to determine if it is the variant.
Despite concerns about the new form of Covid, immunologists call for calm: “NThere is no reason to panic – writes Dr. Antonella Viola on Facebook – We do not know if this variant is really more dangerous. We need laboratory data that has not yet been produced. Only then will we know if:
1) it is really – as can be seen from mathematical calculations – more contagious;
2) causes a more serious illness;
3) is recognized by the antibodies generated against the other Spike (and therefore the vaccines are still effective) ”.
Meanwhile Aeroporti di Puglia announces that no direct flights have arrived from Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Puglia airports in the last 24 hours. On average, there were two weekly connections with Great Britain. The lists of passengers who arrived in the last 14 days of the airlines that have flown from these destinations are already in process, by the Usmaf through Adp, so that the ASL Prevention Departments can contact them. and summon them for the hyssop.
In fact, in accordance with the provisions of art. 1, paragraph 3, of the Ordinance of 20.12.2020 of the Minister of Health “persons who are in the national territory and who in the fourteen days prior to this ordinance have remained or transited in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of the North, also if they are asymptomatic, are obliged to immediately communicate their entry into the national territory to the Prevention Department of the health company responsible for the area and undergo molecular or antigenic tests, which will be carried out using a swab. “
“The swabs made on citizens who have returned from the United Kingdom – declares the health advisor Pier Luigi Lopalco – will be sent to the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Puglia and Basilicata for sequencing in order to identify the new variant. At the moment, none of the strains isolated in recent months in Apulia has the English variant ”.
