Variant of Covid, that’s why it is more contagious

Published on: 12/21/2020 2:37 pm

The new variant of the coronavirus enters through the nose, which becomes a door almost ‘wide open’. This is the concise explanation with which Professor Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to the Minister of Health, illustrates the greater contagion of the new English variant of the virus. “The 3 mutations we are talking about have given the virus the ability to penetrate better inside our mucous membranes, in particular through the nose. Now it has a facilitated door” in front “, before it had to be disengaged and now it is faster. London infections have doubled in the last 3 days reaching the record since February. There have not been imposed measures, such as the obligation of masks, to prevent contagion “, said Ricciardi to A day of the sheep.

“The virus” in Italy “has already arrived. There is a case that has been isolated in the Celio polyclinic and 6 other suspects. Now it has spread throughout Europe, the British government has not given information despite the new variant in Gran Brittany was identified in September ”, he highlights.

“I am concerned not so much about aggression, but about contagion that increases a lot. This virus is transmitted much more easily, we will have to be particularly careful and take stricter measures to avoid contagion. If we ever have more cases, we will have more severe cases and more deaths, “he says again. The positive note seems to refer to the efficacy of the vaccines:” There does not seem to be any compromise in the protective capacity of the vaccine, which continues to be a weapon that must be accelerated.