Pisa, isolated a variant of the virus that “grows a hundred times faster than the others”

Pisa, December 29, 2020 – «At the end of last week we isolated in one young woman from england a virus variant that once put in contact with the cells we have seen that grew very fast, a hundred times faster than all the others. But we still don’t know whether or not it is the so-called English variant. ‘

This is what the teacher reports Mauro pistello, virologist at the University Hospital of Pisa. “From a geographical point of view – he added – it could be that variant because this young Italian woman comes from an area in the south of England where she was identified. In the coming days, thanks to laboratory analysis, we will know more.