Covid, Ministry of Health: first case of the Gb variant isolated in Italy

2020-12-20T19:33:52.671Z

The Scientific Department of the Celio Military Polyclinic, which in this emergency is collaborating with the Higher Institute of Health, has sequenced the genome of the sars-2 virus from a subject tested positive with the variant found in the last few weeks in Great Britain. This is what is stated in a note from the Ministry of Health. "The patient and his partner who have returned - reads the note - in the last few days from the United Kingdom with a flight landed at Fiumicino airport, are in isolation and have followed, together with other family members and close contacts, all the procedures established by the Ministry of Health ".