Rome, December 9, 2021 – The Covid variant Omicron seems to be less scary after the initial alarmism, now there is talk of one in many quarters less dangerous mutation. This was stated by the general director of the Italian drug agency (Aifa), Nicola Magrini: “It is proving less dangerous than expected, and for some monoclonal antibodies the coverage is there. So, we are not heading towards an inability to handle the omicron variant if it becomes prevalent.” Speaking at ‘Porta a Porta’, according to Magrini the Omicron “Could be less aggressive”.
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Still Magrini, but in the Health Commission, speaking of the new variant, he stated: “We will try to understand if its greater diffusivity will generate a more or less serious variant of the previous one, because there are also signs that may be less severe than Delta “. Regarding the efficacy of vaccines and current therapies against the South African variant, he said that “the first reports are excellent and concerned a Gsk monoclonal that passed the ‘omicron test’ and also the Pfizer dosage data is very reassuring: we await other confirmations, and yesterday the WHO expressed itself on the fact that omicron seems to be controllable with current instruments “. And he concluded: “These data, after the black clouds with which the new variant was announced, seem instead to brighten a lot, being favorable data”.
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Of the same opinion, the head of the anti-Covid vaccines task force of the European Medicines Agency (Ema), Marco Cavaleri, who speaking of the variant stated: “The cases seem to be mostly mild, however we need to gather more evidence to determine if the spectrum of disease severity caused by Omicron is different from that of all the variants that have circulated so far. “Cavalieri is unsure about the spread of the new variant:” We do not know if Omicron will replace the Delta variant for Christmas could happen but we are not sure “.
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The councilor for health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato, confirms that his data on the 3 Omicron patients in the region are also promising: “The epidemiological investigation is proceeding on the detected cases of the omicron variant, they are all well”. Even the case identified today in Piedmont, the second in the region, does not worry: he is an unvaccinated 80 year old, totally asymptomatic, residing in the province of Turin, returning from South Africa. They discovered it with a swab at Caselle airport.
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