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The Ministry of Health issued a press release in the afternoon in which it explained that “the scientific department of the Celio Military Polyclinic, which in this emergency is collaborating with the Higher Institute of Health, has sequenced the genome of the SARS-CoV virus. 2 from a subject who tested positive for the variant found in recent weeks in Great Britain. “
“The patient, and his partner who returned from the United Kingdom in recent days – continues the statement – with a flight landed at the Rome Fiumicino airport, are isolated and have followed, along with other relatives and close contacts, all the established procedures by the Ministry of Health “.
Covid, Crisanti: “The third wave is true”
After yesterday it was announced that a new variant of the Coronavirus had been identified in London and south-east England, today the World Health Organization announced that the same new variant discovered in Great Britain has also been identified in Denmark (9 confirmed cases so far) and Australia, as well as the Netherlands.
Therefore, it would be a new strain of Covid-19 capable of spreading more quickly among the population. The ‘English variant’, the scientists argue, has an infectivity rate 70% higher than the ‘strain’ found so far.
