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ROME – The new Covid is in Italy. The Scientific Department of the Celio Military Polyclinic, which in this emergency is collaborating with the Higher Institute of Health, has sequenced the genome of the Sars-Cov-2 virus from a subject who tested positive for the variant found in recent weeks in Great Britain ” The Ministry of Health wrote it down. The patient, and his partner, who returned from the UK in recent days with a flight landed at Fiumicino airport, are in isolation “and have continued, along with other family members and close contacts, all procedures established by the Ministry of Health “.”.
The new variant has been identified in Great Britain: due to its transmission speed, which would be up to 70 percent higher than that of the hitherto dominant virus, the British government decided on Saturday, December 19, a series of new containment measures. Covid 2 has already been identified in Denmark, Holland, Belgium.
Italy announced today the blocking of flights from the United Kingdom until Wednesday, January 6. And similar indications have been given in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and the Netherlands. The United States, for now, has no intention of stopping trade with Great Britain.
As the minister said Roberto Speranza, the new variant would not be more lethal than the one known so far, and predisposed vaccines against the coronavirus should maintain their effectiveness. Several experts agree on this last point, from the president of the Higher Health Council Franco Locatelli to the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, a Giacomo Gorini, a researcher at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford.
The chancellor Luigi di maio, guest of What’s the weather like, points out that “this variant accelerates the contagion capacity and is capable of increasing the transmission rate by 0.5 percent”. “Science will deepen, but we need the utmost caution. We also ask for European coordination as in March,” said the head of Farnesina.
