English variant of Sars-Cov-2, hunting for suspicious cases. Traced thousands of arrivals from GB

A race against time in search of virus positives arrived from the United Kingdom to avert the risks of a wave of Covid in the most insidious version even in our country. After the stop to flights, the tracing of thousands of citizens who could be positive for the British variant of Sars-Cov-2 has now started throughout Italy, passenger lists in hand: a strain that would no longer be lethal or more resistant to vaccines, but capable of spreading more rapidly. And the alert could be triggered in the next few hours against other countries: the possibility of blocking flights with Holland and Luxembourg is also being studied. But - clarifies the Undersecretary of the Interior Carlo Sibilia - "these are decisions that will be taken in coordination with the EU" he explained. New measures are on the way but no setbacks for the vaccine plan: "it will go ahead and there is no change to the time schedule", clarify the environment of the Commissioner for the Emergency, Domenico Arcuri. In Italy so far the only case concerns 'patient 1', a 42-year-old woman - a secret service official - in solitary confinement in Rome with her partner, a former British army officer, who had returned from the United Kingdom in recent days. and landed at Fiumicino airport: they are both positive and asymptomatic. The mutation found on the virus genome was verified by the doctors of the Celio military hospital but only on the woman, who has a high viral load. But, after the order of the Minister of Health who also ordered investigations for all passengers returned from the United Kingdom in the last 14 days, 'sub judice' throughout Italy there are already at least fifteen other suspected cases. In Trieste on the first 90 passengers landed in the last hours and coming from London, one of them - an Italian - tested positive: in addition to the more in-depth investigations on the latter, all the others will be quarantined. The balance of molecular tests on the 134 passengers and six crew members of the flight landed in Palermo is instead of three positive swabs and two doubts. Two positive cases have arrived in Bari from Great Britain in the last two weeks, including that of a 25-year-old girl who returned with a fever last Thursday on a very crowded plane. The other passengers on the flight will be summoned in the next few hours to be swabbed. Finally, after landing in Capodichino, the Naples airport, seven were positive. No aircraft from overseas will land in Italy at least until 6 January, but flights to the United Kingdom continue, albeit in fits and starts and with many cancellations. Only one Boeing took off from Rome in a single day, bound for London Heathrow, with about a hundred passengers on board, mostly British. The new challenge now is that of tracing quickly: in Lazio the indication was issued to the laboratories to contact the Spallanzani Institute in the case of positivity to the molecular swab of subjects from the United Kingdom and in Liguria they are already a hundreds of people who 'reported' their return from England to the ASL of Genoa. The people who have returned, let the health company of the Ligurian capital know, must communicate it and for them it is mandatory to undergo a tampon. But a small group of people, less than ten who returned a few days ago before it was mandatory to undergo a swab, preferred not to take the test and are now on active surveillance where they will remain for two weeks. Swabs at airports but also checks in Veneto on who can arrive by other means, all appealing to common sense. According to the order of the governor Zaia, there is also a screening on the tampons made by those who came from the island in the last month, therefore 14 days more than the order of Hope. All material stored and re-analyzed also to reconstruct the sequencing of the same mutated virus.

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21 December 2020A race against time in search of virus positives arrived from the United Kingdom to avert the risks of a wave of Covid in the most insidious version even in our country. After the stop to flights, the tracing of thousands of citizens who could be positive for the British variant of Sars-Cov-2 has now started throughout Italy, passenger lists in hand: a strain that would no longer be lethal or more resistant to vaccines, but capable of spreading more rapidly. And the alert could be triggered in the next few hours against other countries: the hypothesis of blocking flights with Holland and Luxembourg is also being studied. But - clarifies the Undersecretary of the Interior Carlo Sibilia - "these are decisions that will be taken in coordination with the EU" he explained.

New measures are on the way but no setbacks for the vaccine plan: "it will go ahead and there is no change to the time schedule", clarify environments of the Commissioner for the Emergency, Domenico Arcuri.

In Italy so far the only case concerns 'patient 1', a 42-year-old woman - a secret service official - in solitary confinement in Rome with her partner, a former British army officer, who had returned from the United Kingdom in recent days. and landed at Fiumicino airport: they are both positive and asymptomatic.

The mutation found on the genome of the virus was verified by the doctors of the Celio military hospital but only on the woman, who has a high viral load. But, after the order of the Minister of Health who also ordered investigations for all passengers returned from the United Kingdom in the last 14 days, 'sub judice' throughout Italy there are already at least fifteen other suspected cases.

Trieste

on the first 90 passengers landed in the last hours and coming from London, one of them - an Italian - tested positive: in addition to the more in-depth investigations on the latter, all the others will be quarantined.

The balance of molecular tests on the 134 passengers and six crew members of the flight landed in

Palermo is

instead of three positive swabs and two doubts

Bari there

are two positive cases from Great Britain in the last two weeks, including that of a 25-year-old girl who returned with a fever last Thursday on a very crowded plane. The other passengers on the flight will be summoned in the next few hours to be swabbed.

Finally, after landing in Capodichino, the

Naples

airport

, seven were positive.

No aircraft from overseas will land in Italy at least until 6 January, but flights to the United Kingdom continue, albeit in fits and starts and with many cancellations. From Rome in a single day only one Boeing took off, bound for London Heathrow, with about a hundred passengers on board, mostly British.

The new challenge now is that of tracing quickly: in Lazio, laboratories have been instructed to contact the Spallanzani Institute in the case of positivity to the molecular swab of subjects from the United Kingdom and in Liguria they are already a hundreds of people who 'reported' their return from England to the ASL of Genoa. The people who have returned, let the health company of the Ligurian capital know, must communicate it and for them it is mandatory to undergo a tampon. But a small group of people, less than ten who returned a few days ago before it was mandatory to undergo a swab, preferred not to take the test and are now on active surveillance where they will remain for two weeks.

Swabs at airports but also checks in Veneto on who can arrive by other means, all appealing to common sense. According to the order of the governor Zaia, there is also a screening on the tampons made by those who came from the island in the last month, therefore 14 days longer than the order of Hope. All material stored and re-analyzed also to reconstruct the sequencing of the same mutated virus.

English variant of Sars-Cov-2, hunting for suspicious cases. Traced thousands of arrivals from GB

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