The English variant of the Coronavirus that spreads faster, begins to scare and create further confusion in a Europe that has been struggling for many months with a complex and difficult pandemic crisis. Given the spread of the new virus mutation, many countries, including Italy, have suspended flights with Great Britain. But the mutated virus is already circulating on the continent and our country has announced that it has found a positive subject to the new variant.
The new variant of the virus has already arrived in Italy
The patient positive for the English variant of the virus has returned from the United Kingdom in recent days with a flight landed at Fiumicino airport. The positive subject and his partner who was traveling with him are in solitary confinement. Our two compatriots followed all the procedures established by the Ministry of Health. This was announced by the official bodies of the ministry itself.
"The variant of Sars-CoV2 that is circulating at the moment a London and in south-east England, it has mutations on the virus's surface protein, the so-called Spike. Although it is hypothesized that these mutations may increase the transmissibility of the virus, they do not appear to alter either clinical aggression or response to vaccines". This was reiterated by the general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza.
The vaccine does not lose its effectiveness
"There is currently no evidence that the variant of the Covid virus identified in the UK is less sensitive to the incoming vaccine, reducing its effectiveness.. He is faster but there is no evidence that he is capable of doing more damage and killing more ”.
Thus the virologist Carlo Federico Perno, professor of Microbiology at the UniCamillus e International Medical University of Rome, as well as director of the Department of Microbiology, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital. Pin is in contact with the virologist Ravy Gupta, of Univesity College London, which isolated the new variant.
