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Also in Italy a positive person was identified in the “English variantFrom Sars Cov 2 discovered in London. A note from the Ministry of Health, at night, announced that the Scientific Department of the Celio Military Polyclinic He sequenced the genome of the virus “from a person who tested positive for the variant found in recent weeks in Great Britain. The patient and his partner returned in the last days of the UK with a flight landed at the airport Fiumicino, are isolated and have followed, along with other family members and close contacts, all process settled down “.
The variant is worrying all of Europe, with major capitals including Rome, which on Sunday decided to block flights to and from Britain from midnight Sunday until January 6. “We choose the path of maximum caution“Explained the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. The mutated virus “does not seem to be doing more to damage in the individual ”, Speranza emphasizes,“ but yes spread faster and this means more infections and it is a problem. “Fortunately,” it seems that vaccinations that are in the terminal phase and that must be approved by theMother December 21 can work Equally also in this variant. But it is information that we still have to render more solid“.
The chancellor Luigi di maio, who was the first to announce the blocking of flights, explained: “This variant of the virus, I say without generating alarmism, accelerates the contagion capacity, it is capable of increasing the Rt index by 0.5%. So we close the flights. We need the utmost caution. Our priority is to protect Italy and our compatriots. “
The tampon obligation is returned upon arrival from the UK. – Meanwhile, “whoever is already in Italy, coming from that territory, must undergo buffer antigenic or molecular by contacting the prevention departments. “The rest obligation was in force until December 9, while from the following day, according to the Dpcm of December 3, those who entered our country had to present the negative result of a swab taken in the previous 48 hours Now the test is back on arrival and the rule applies to all people who have passed in the last 14 days. UK, even if it is asymptomatic. The 110 passengers who landed in the afternoon a Fiumicino with a flight from London Heathrow, probably the last one before the suspension, they will test at the airport. Any passenger with a positive swab will be transferred to the Spallanzani for the monitoring and study of any variant of Covid.
Preventive flight stop – Measure precautionary of the stopover for incoming and outgoing flights aims to “understand the scope of problemAnd it came “after a confrontation with ours scientists“Now, he continued hope, the experts “will have to understand the situation, contact who and British government. The only information we have is this on the ability to spread faster. ” However, the minister does not hide fears about the mutation discovered in England, which “is worrying and will have to be investigated by our scientists.” However, “the maximum is indispensable coordination European Union on measures, only uniform and shared decisions can help us better manage the situation outside the emergency of these first hours ”.
Enac’s notice – In application of the Minister’s ordinance, the National Civil Aviation Authority issued a “Notam (Notice to Airmen)” with whichban on air traffic from the UK (Great Britain and Northern Ireland), from today until January 6, 2021. ENAC invites passengers with reserved flights to and from these destinations to contact their airline.
Italians arriving with the last flights – Many Italians in London had already planned to return for Christmas and managed to leave the British capital by taking the last flights to Italy before the blockade. After being subjected to tampons, at the Fiumicino airport the first passengers, mostly Italians, of the 110 who arrived on British flight 560 from London began to go out to collect their luggage after 5 in the afternoon. But the last arrival in Italy from Great Britain after the stopover is a Ryanair for Pescara with 136 passengers on board. The plane had already taken off when the minister signed the order. In the evening three flights from London to Fiumicino were canceled while the last flights departing, in the afternoon, to the London capital were Alitalia, Vueling me British, between 15 and 17:45. From Ciampino, the last Ryanair flight took off at 2pm.
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