The update of the president of the ISS Silvio Brusaferro on the sequencing in Italy of the Delta Plus variant cases
The Delta Plus sub-variant of the coronavirus, already widespread in the UK, could also take hold in Italy. As of 21 October, 93 cases were registered in our country, a slight increase compared to the 86 sequences found two days earlier, last October 19th. The data, deposited in the Gisaid platform, were presented by the ISS president, Silvio Brusaferro in his speech at the national conference on the pandemic of the SSP Foundation (School of Public Health) in Venice. beraking latest news reports it.
Delta Plus variant, cases increase in Italy: variant monitoring
The professor at the head of the Higher Institute of Health had already stressed on the occasion of the latest monitoring of the epidemic in Italy, that these are very low numbers, but which still require a high level of alertness.
Taking stock of the coronavirus situation in our country, Brusaferro listed among the various surveillance systems “also the monitoring of variants. We have seen how Sars-CoV-2 is evolving. “
“At the beginning we started with a totally new virus that we surveyed and evaluated, and then gradually we had to deal with its variants. Competitive variants, which overlapped and today characterize the epidemiological picture ”explained the spokesperson for the CTS.
“If at the beginning of the year we had the Alfa variant, today we are with the Delta and we are evaluating possible sub-variants of the Delta. It is an ever-changing situation”Added Brusaferro.
The Delta plus variant, AY.4.2, was detected in 15,201 cases in Great Britain, representing 93.8% of the sequences detected in Europe, which in turn records 99% of the total in the world.
The characteristics of the sub-lineage of the Delta strain of Sars-CoV-2 are currently being studied to identify the potential effects of its two specific mutations, as shown by Brusaferro in his speech.
Delta Plus variant, cases in Italy are increasing: Pregliasco’s analysis
The virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco also expressed himself on the possible propagation of the new sub-variant: “It is possible, there may be other closures in case of diffusion of the Delta plus variant. The new variant is in fact 10% more contagious than the Delta, although fortunately less dangerous “said, the director of the Galeazzi of Milan and Anpas, guest of ‘Un Giorno da Pecora’, on Rai Radio1.
For the professor “this Covid will remain endemic, in some countries the thing is going up again and therefore we too may have to take it into account this winter, other pandemics may arrive ”.
Virgil News | 25-10-2021 19:45
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