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the Ministry of Health communicated that the new variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus – the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 – also present in Italy.
The Scientific Department of the Celio Military Polyclinic, which collaborates with the Istituto Superiore della Sanit in this emergency, has sequenced the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus of a subject positive with the variant found in recent weeks in Great Britainwrote the Italian Ministry of Health in a note. 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 .
The new variant was identified for the first time, in recent months, in Great Britain; Due to its characteristics – in particular, its transmission speed, which would be up to 70 percent higher than the previously dominant one – the British government decided on Saturday, December 19, a series of new containment measures.
On Sunday, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new anti-Covid measures on Saturday, many European countries – including Italy – announced the blocking of flights arriving from the United Kingdom. In Italy, the blocking of flights, together with the entry ban for those who have been in Great Britain in the 14 days prior to December 20, and the mandatory mattress for those who have arrived from Great Britain or have passed through Great Britain during the 14 days. before December 20, you are already in Italy; It will be active until January 6.
The new variant has already been identified in other European countries as well as Great Britain, including Denmark, the Netherlands, and Australia. Given its high transmissibility, very likely to be foundIn the next few days, also in other countries.
According to what emerged from the first analyzes, the new variant it would not be more lethal than the hitherto dominant, ei vaccinations preparations against the coronavirus – both those already approved by various health authorities around the world, as well as those that are in production – must remain effective even against this new variant. According to German Health Minister Jens Spahn, to the public broadcaster Zdf, EU experts believe that existing coronavirus vaccines are effective against the newly identified fast-spreading strain. Although it is hypothesized that these mutations may increase the transmissibility of the virus, they do not appear to alternate either clinical aggression or response to vaccines, he confirmed. Gianni rezza, General Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health (here the deepening of Health messenger dedicated to the characteristics of the new variant).
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