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Within days, and with breakneck speed, the Corona virus swept through a nearby kindergarten and elementary school in the Italian suburb of Polati, near Milan, infecting 45 children and 14 employees, according to the Associated Press.
The genetic analysis confirmed what officials already suspected, which is the acceleration of the spread of the highly contagious British strain in Polati, which has a population of around 40,000, and which has a chemical plant and a Pirelli tire factory. .
“This is evidence that the virus has some kind of intelligence, even if it is a single-celled organism,” said Polati Mayor Francesco Vasalo. We can lift all the barriers in the world and imagine it working, but in the end, the virus adapts and crosses those barriers. “
Polati was the first region of Lombardy, the Northern Territory that was the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the past, which was isolated from the rest of the regions due to mutated strains, which according to the World Health Organization is the reason for the increase in the number of infections in Europe.
The strains also include the two that were first identified in South Africa and Brazil. The World Health Organization said on Thursday that Europe recorded one million new corona cases last week, a 9 percent increase from the previous week.
Dr. Hans Kluge, Director of the WHO Regional Office in Europe, said: “The spread of new strains is the reason behind the increase in cases of infection, but it is not the only reason”, noting that one of the The reasons are due to facilitating isolation measures “in an unsafe or controlled manner”.
The British strain is widely spread in 27 European countries monitored by the World Health Organization, and is prevalent in at least 10 countries, according to the organization’s statistics, which are Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, Countries Netherlands, Israel, Spain and Portugal.
In Lombardy, intensive care wards are filling up again, as more than two-thirds of new cases are infected with the British strain, health officials said this week.
After two provinces and nearly 50 cities relaxed closure measures, the Lombardy region governor announced on Friday a tightening of restrictions and the closure of schools. The provincial health official said cases in Milan schools alone had risen 33 percent in one week.
In the Czech Republic, a record number of around 8,500 people with corona were registered in hospitals this week. Poland is opening temporary hospitals and is in the process of imposing a partial closure, as the number of people infected with the new strain has risen from 10 percent of all infections last February to 25 percent now.
While the British dynasty is predominant in France, leading to the closure of the city of Nice on the French Riviera and the port of Dunkirk in the north of the country, the strain that was first discovered in South Africa appeared as the most widespread in the Moselle region, which borders Germany and Luxembourg. This strain represents 55 percent of the cases spread there.
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