Covid: there are 8,585 new cases, the positivity rate drops – Medicine



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There are 8,585 positive coronavirus swabs in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. There are 445 victims, 68,681 coronavirus swabs made in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday they were 59,879. Today’s positivity rate is 12.5%, up from 14.8% yesterday. Patients in intensive care due to Covid-19 have fallen by 15, in the balance between entries and exits, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Daily admissions are 167. In total, 2,565 people are hospitalized in intensive care. On the other hand, the people treated in the ordinary rooms are 23,932, 361 units more than yesterday.

Similar English variant discovered in Brescia. Isolated in August in Spedali Civili – “In the Brescia laboratories, a variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus similar to the English one was isolated, but before it was discovered in England”. Professor Arnaldo Caruso, president of the Italian Society of Virology, professor of Microbiology at the University of Brescia and director of the Microbiology and Virology Laboratory of the Spedali Civili explains this to ANSA. “The variant of the virus was isolated in August in an asymptomatic patient, who was not hospitalized in the Civil de Brescia, who had been fighting the covid for months. The situation intrigued us and now we can say that a virus similar to the one could circulate in Italy But at times it can be considered an ancestor of the English virus. “Professor Caruso then adds:” This variant has mutation points in the Spike protein, at position 501. “The virologist finally announces.” We are working to understand whether the vaccine is capable of neutralizing this variation of the virus as well. Personally, I think so, but we have yet to verify it. “

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