Chinanews, December 22, according to Euronet, citing EUN News Agency, on the 21st local time, Italian Minister of Health Speranza said that the newly announced variants of the new crown virus in the UK may increase the number of epidemic prevention efforts during the holiday season. Uncertainties.

Many health experts said that the mutated new coronavirus becomes more infectious, and Italy may need to strengthen its epidemic prevention efforts.

Data map: On November 25, local time, affected by the new crown epidemic, the Italian ski resort Madonna, Campiglio, changed its lively scene in previous years and was in a state of lockdown.

　　According to reports, the research institute of a military hospital in Rome, Italy, reported on the 21st that researchers have sequenced the genome of a confirmed virus sample from a woman who returned to Italy from the United Kingdom, and confirmed that the source of the woman’s virus infection was a British variant virus.

　　The researcher said that the Italian woman's partner is a British citizen, and the two went to the Italian province from the UK for a holiday last week.

The two entry tests were positive for the new crown virus and are currently in isolation at home.

The follow-up investigation of the infected person found that the viral load in the woman's body was very high.

　　According to the report, the variant virus discovered this time in the United Kingdom has now been named the new crown "VUI-202012/01" variant virus. The variant virus was discovered in London and Kent in mid-September 2020, and only 2 Spread within the month.

　　On the 21st, the European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) stated in an announcement that the virus had appeared in Denmark in November and has spread to an unknown degree internationally.

The European Center for Disease Control calls on the health departments of member states to isolate and detect the variant new coronavirus in a timely manner, and promptly test and quarantine people who have been exposed to the variant virus, as well as those who have traveled to risk areas, and continue to carry out virus testing methods. Update.

Data map: On October 22, local time, in Milan, Italy, a woman walked on an empty street.

　　Experts from the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out that the mutated virus does not seem to have changed in terms of pathogenicity, but its transmission capacity has been greatly improved.

　　Gali, director of the infectious diseases department of Sacco Hospital in Milan, Italy, pointed out that the new coronavirus is an RNA virus, which is characterized by random mutations every time it replicates.

The head of the Italian National Institute of Infectious Diseases said that the new crown virus has mutated many times during the epidemic, and other new crown virus variants will not be ruled out in the future.

　　Ricciadi, scientific adviser to the Italian Ministry of Health and director of the National Institute of Advanced Health, said that due to the emergence of new variant viruses, Italy should appropriately adjust and extend existing epidemic prevention measures according to the epidemic trend in the next few days.

Reza, director of the Prevention Bureau of the Italian Ministry of Health, said that first-hand data shows that new variants of the new coronavirus in the UK will respond to the vaccine just like the ordinary new coronavirus.

Therefore, the Ministry of Health will implement the vaccination plan as scheduled, and will administer the new crown vaccine to medical staff, the elderly, and the health-vulnerable group years ago.

Reza pointed out that the surface of the new variants of the new coronavirus that appeared in London and the southeast of the United Kingdom has protein mutations on the so-called spikes. Some people suspect that this mutation may increase the tolerance of the virus, but whether it is their clinical infectivity or The response to the vaccine will not change.

　　The outbreak report of the Italian Ministry of Civil Defense on the 21st showed that in the past 24 hours, there were 10872 newly confirmed cases and 415 deaths in Italy.

As of 18:00 on the 21st, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Italy increased to 1964,054, 69,214 deaths, and 1,281,258 cured cases.

(Boyuan)