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The new variant Coronavirus? Now in Italy it will take a harder grip. Professor Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health and representative of Italy to the WHO, is convinced of this.
The English variant of the UK Sars-Cov-2 virus has crossed borders and has also been found in Italy, Australia, Iceland, Denmark, and the Netherlands. There is no evidence that this virus mutation is more lethal or causes more severe symptoms or that it is resistant to approved vaccines, but studies to date show much more contagious.
This means that serious steps must be taken before it is too late to slow down the more rapid spread of the original coronavirus.
The countries have already acted by suspending flights with the United Kingdom, but now prof. Ricciardi issues a warning and says that probably with the new variant already in circulation in Italy new stricter closures they will be unavoidable.
Covid variant: Italy towards closure in January?
“What makes me angry?”Ricciardi said in an interview with Delivery courier, “It is that the British already knew since September that this variant of Covid was in circulation. They were silent and did not warn us. The contagion is almost double, greater virulence. Now we need a blockade or, in any case, very strict measures “.
Under these conditions, says Speranza’s advisor, it will be difficult schools reopen on January 7. “At Christmas there is a risk of a new increase in infections”.
But the problem, he continues, does not concern only the days of Christmas and New Years. “We will have months in which we will have to be careful. The Christmas period is special because there are usually more family gatherings and trips. But we must understand that this will be a lasting battle. Now, as in the near future, we will have to be very careful ”.
Ban travel
The new strain of Covid-19 has caused alarm in continental Europe, prompting almost all EU countries to issue travel bans in the UK in an attempt to prevent the spread of the mutation locally. Boris Johnson at the press conference said that the new variant is the 70% more transmittable of existing strains and probably responsible for the new boom of infections in London and the south of England. Is essential avoid moving and adopt even greater restrictive measures given the rapid transmissibility of the Covid-19 variant.
The teacher disagrees. Peter Kremsner, director of the Tübingen University Hospital in Germany, who told a DW he sees no compelling reason to restrict travel to or from Great Britain. “However, closing borders is not a good idea, especially in the European Union, he said. We must work together within Member States and together to fight this pandemic”.
