Variant of Covid, WHO: “English mutation seems more transmissible by children”

The new variant of coronavirus identified in UK “It seems to be transmitted more easily by Young people me children“, But further investigation is still” ongoing. ” This was stated by the special envoy for the pandemic of the World Health Organization, David nabarro, a Skynews. This could increase fears for schools reopening in January, as increased virus transmissibility risks accelerating infections and plunging the British country into third wave. The Downing Street Ministry of Health, among other things, has already made known that the new strain may be more contagious than 70% compared to the one released so far. If the mutation is “really replicating or growing better in children,” then “it could have a ripple effect on spread of the virus throughout the English population“He always added a Skynews Mark Harris, a virologist at the University of Leeds.

A concern that really does not concern only the United Kingdom: among the countries where the variant has already been found are Denmark, Holland, l’Australia and also Italy, where just today a case was confirmed in the Marches. The data from Denmark, explains the infectious disease specialist at Imperial College London, Neil ferguson, quoted from guardian, suggest that “almost certainly” the new variant of Covid has already entered “most, if not all” European countries. The hope is that, as many experts around the world claim, the vaccine processed by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, both effective even against the new strain. And even if that wasn’t the case, as he explained to Ilfattoquotidiano.it the director of the Spallanzani Virology Laboratory Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, “You can ‘fix’ in few weeks how is it with me flu shots“.