Caserta, 30 November 2021 – After his wife and two children, there are others three positives probably related to patient zero of the Omicron variant in Italy: it’s about a teacher and two classmates of one of the children of first case in Italy, Eni’s Caserta manager found positive for Omicron. The definitive results on the screening placed on teachers and classmates of the two minors revealed the new positivity; now you will have to proceed with the sequencing to determine if it is indeed Omicron. At the moment there are therefore four cases of positivity to the South African variant found in Italy, all in Caserta and linked to the Eni manager.
Yesterday the Cotugno laboratory in Naples he had, in fact, discovered that the two children and the wife of patient zero were also positive for Omicron, while for the mother and mother-in-law of patient zero it was not possible to proceed with sequencing due to the low viral load. As for the classes of the Caserta elementary school attended by the two sons of the manager, it must be said that teachers and students – about forty people in total – had already been subjected in recent days to a double series of swabs after the positivity had emerged. of the two children of patient zero, and all tests were negative. In the third series, however, carried out on last Sunday, November 28, the three new positivity emerged: the teacher and the two positive pupils are fine. The two classes should remain in solitary confinement, with the use of Dad, until 3 December. Meanwhile in Caserta an elementary school has been closed – but not because it is linked to the ‘patient zero’ story – in relation to some cases of positivity to Covid found among teachers and students.
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