Covid variant in Italy, positive patient from Great Britain

Published on: 12/20/2020 8:13 PM

In Italy, a positive patient for the new variant of the coronavirus has been identified. The Scientific Department of the Celio Military Polyclinic, which collaborates with the Istituto Superiore della Sanità in this emergency, 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 “, it reads in a note from the Ministry of Health.

The patient and his partner, who returned from the United Kingdom in recent days with a flight landed at Fiumicino airport, are in isolation and have followed, together with other relatives and close contacts, all the procedures established by the Ministry of Health . “, continues the note.