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The ‘English variant’ of Covid has also been isolated in Italy, in the laboratories of the Celio military hospital in Rome. Celio’s Scientific Department, which collaborates with the Higher Institute of Health in this emergency, has sequenced the genome of the virus of a subject who tested positive – explains a note from the Ministry of Health – with the variant found in recent weeks in Great Britain . “.
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, along with other relatives and close contacts, all the procedures established by the Ministry of Health . “
As explained by the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Giovanni Rezza, the variant of Sars-Cov2 presents mutations in the surface protein of the virus that, although it is hypothesized that they can increase the transmissibility of the virus “do not seem to alter or clinical aggressiveness nor the response to vaccines. ”
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Flights to London suspended
Italy suspends i flights to the UK after the alarm for the new variant of the coronavirus found in the country. This was announced by Chancellor Luigi Di Maio. “As a government we have a duty to protect Italians, so after having notified the British government, we are about to sign the provision to suspend flights with Great Britain with the Ministry of Health.” A decision that will soon also be made by France, which is also considering suspending the trains coming from the Eurotunnel. The same is planned by Germany, while the Netherlands and Belgium have already stopped flights arriving from London.
As the Minister of Health explains Roberto Speranza Lucia Annunciata’s host during transmission “half an hour +” the variant accelerates the virus: “The first information says that it does not seem to do any more damage but it causes more infections and this is still a very serious problem. From the first information it seems that vaccines they can still work, but more robust information is needed. “
Last night I entrusted our plants to the offices to verify the genomic sequences in our country, we absolutely must do all the necessary controls ”.
The variant of the uncontrolled coronavirus
The decision after British Health Minister Matt Hancock announced that the new variant of the coronavirus detected in the UK is “out of control” and justifies the harsh lockdown in England, Scotland and Wales. The movement restrictions decided to try to stop the spread of this (new) variant.
“There are currently just over 18,000 hospitalizations for coronavirus in public hospitals, which is just below the number we reached with the first peak.”
Meanwhile, anger rises after the scenes of the exodus seen last night in London before the closure occurred. In videos posted online, thousands of people storm St Pancras station.
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The video posted on twitter @spoonersean
In fact, thousands of people have decided to leave before the shooting. Level 4 at midnight. An “absolutely irresponsible” attitude according to Health Minister Matt Hancock, stating that “the health authorities had made it absolutely clear that people should have unpacked.”
#Mar: Is the coronavirus under control?
Health Secretary Matt Hancock: “No. It is not. The new variant is out of control” https://t.co/gxUy3acCro pic.twitter.com/IWYQ2fKVOW
– BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 20, 2020
WHO: “Mutation already in Holland”
However, national and international restrictions may not be sufficient to contain the mutated virus that has already been detected outside the British Isles. As the World Health Organization explains, the new viral strain has also been found in the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia.
The mutation is spreading faster than its “original” version, but there is currently no evidence that it is a more lethal form.
Checks for those arriving from abroad
At the moment, according to the regulations in force since December 3, as for the rest of the countries, even those arriving from the United Kingdom are required to have a swab -fast or molecular- but it is not mandatory and alternatively you can go into fiduciary quarantine. However, as there is no monitoring, no one can guarantee that passengers comply with this last rule.
For today alone, the last day available to return without residency restriction, there were more than twenty flights planned from London.
Crisanti: “Check if the variant is already in Italy”
“We need to check if this variant is already in Italy and then give resources to the laboratories to carry out the sequencing. The more it spreads, the more diseases and deaths it causes, it is evident ”. To tell Adnkronos the virologist Andrea Crisanti, commenting on the new, more aggressive variant of the coronavirus that is spreading in the southeast of England and that has also been detected in Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia.
“The new variant” appeared this summer in Spain and actually has a higher R0 than the others – explains the virologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Padua – It is not known if the immune response produced by vaccines also covers this variant It is a question for which there is still no answer. “
However, such a thing has already happened, explains the virologist, “with the Shanghai variant that supplanted the Wuhan one.” What is happening, therefore, “is normal” says Crisanti, who specifies: “It is not that we should not be alarmed but we must try to understand what is happening, how much this disease is spreading compared to another, if it is more virulent and yes vaccine problems, all questions to which we have no answer. “
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