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The fastest-spreading English variant of Covid is scary. The English variant of the coronavirus has already existed for a month. Three sequences of samples collected in Denmark and one in Australia, taken in November, were found to be related to the English outbreak caused by this mutation. This indicates that “its international diffusion has already taken place, although its scope is unknown.” The European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) explains this in a report posted on its website.
“The public health authorities and laboratories of all European countries They must analyze isolated viruses in a timely manner. to identify cases of the new variant. Those who have had contact with people positive for the new mutation or who have traveled to the affected areas should be identified immediately, so that they can be tested, isolated and their contacts traced. This is the invitation that reaches all European countries from the European Center for Disease Control (Ecdc).
Meanwhile it was the procedure for isolating the virus sequence to verify the so-called variant has been started at Spallanzani in Rome. The verifications will be carried out in the test carried out on a passenger who landed yesterday in Fiumicino and tested positive for the swab. The results of the investigations will be in the next few days to establish if the passenger, positive for Covid, has the so-called English variant. According to what he has learned, he is a young doctor. Of the 351 passengers who landed yesterday in Fiumicino from England, this is the only positive result in Covid.
The woman who tested positive for the British variant of Covid is fine and asymptomatic. The woman is not hospitalized, but is isolated with her partner at their home in the Rome area. The latter, of British origin, is also positive and asymptomatic and had returned from the United Kingdom a few days ago but the variant has not yet been confirmed. Your partner, on the other hand, has a strong viral load. Element, the latter, that would have helped to sequence the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with the variant found in recent weeks in Great Britain. During these hours, several close contacts, including relatives, of the woman have been located and isolated.
A suspected case of the new English variant of Covid is found in Bari: is being examined by the Apulian health authorities and refers to a 25-year-old girl who returned to Bari from London last Thursday with a fever. The young woman, subjected to a swab in the capital of Apulia, tested positive for Coronavirus. The news is reported by Repubblica. According to the newspaper, the girl returned last Thursday with a very busy Ryanair flight. The passage to the thermocanner showed that she had a fever and the operators of the Usmaf (Office of Maritime and Air Border Health) the young woman told them that she had already had flu symptoms in England where she had undergone a swab of which she had not had the result before to go. The girl, who is now isolated and in good condition, was subjected to a swab in Bari, which tested positive for coronavirus. The swab will be examined in the next few hours by the Foggia Zooprophylactic Institute to see if it is the English variant of the virus. The other passengers on the flight will be summoned in the next few hours to be cleaned.
Virtually all of Europe, including Italy, has decided to suspend flights with Great Britain. But the virus mutation is already circulating across the continent.
The German presidency of the EU has invited member states to an urgent meeting of the IPCR, the political crisis management mechanism. The meeting aims to coordinate the EU-wide response to the Covid 19 variant.
“The Sars-CoV2 variant currently circulating in London and south-east England has mutations in the virus’s surface protein, the so-called Spike. Although it is hypothesized that these mutations may increase the transmissibility of the virus, it is not they seem to alter neither the clinical aggression nor the response to vaccines ”, said the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza.
The variant found in recent weeks in Great Britain has also already been tracked in Holland, Denmark, Australia and perhaps South Africa. “It is out of control”, admitted the authorities in London, to the point of doubling the infections in the Kingdom in just one week. The new strain of Covid is terrifying mainly because it is highly contagious (up to 70% more in London and the south-east of England) enough to force the British government to impose a blockade on the capital.
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