Covid: Italian study confirms new special mutation, mix of variants already known

Rome, 2 April (beraking latest news Salute) – Confirmation has arrived for the new ‘special’ mutation, a mix of already known variants, discovered by the Cerba HealthCare laboratory in Milan by the task force coordinated by virologist Francesco Broccolo, of the University of Milan Bicocca. The variant had been identified in a woman from the province of Novara.

“Thanks to ‘advanced molecular Diagnostic’ methods carried out in the Cerba HealthCare laboratory, Francesco Broccolo’s team had observed in early March a combination of mutations never seen before, which includes characteristics of the Nigerian and English variants. whole genome sequencing has confirmed that this is a new variant “, underlines a note from Cerba HealthCare Italy. At the moment, the new variant “does not appear to be any more contagious or more lethal than other known variants of the SARS-Cov-2 virus,” the scientists say.