Tokyo, December 6, 2021 – Sono 10 cases of Omicron variant sequenced, at the moment, in Italy. The Higher Institute of Health reports 9 of these. “There are currently 9 stored sequences on the ICoGen platform: 7 from the cluster relating to the index patient, 1 found in a patient in the province of Bolzano and 1 in a patient in Veneto”, reads Twitter. The tenth case was found in Sardinia. This was confirmed by the sequencing carried out by the Microbiology and Virology laboratory of the Aou of Sassari on the swab of the passenger who arrived in Alghero in recent days, returning from a trip to South Africa.
Third case in Japan
In Japan on the other hand, the third case of the variant: it is a Japanese citizen from from Italy. The Japanese media anticipate this, telling how the person, who travels frequently in Italy, landed on Monday at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and tested positive with the new strain of the virus. Previous cases in the Land of the Rising Sun involve a diplomat from Namibia, and a man of about 20 who arrived from Peru last week.
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“No or no symptoms”
According to the National Institute for infectious diseases, however, “people infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus show a tendency to have mild or no symptoms, while the infectivity of the variant is stronger than that of the delta variant, which is rapidly replacing everywhere “.” The risk of people developing severe symptoms after being infected with the omicron variant is, however, unknown, but available data assumes that patients tend to have mild symptoms “, the Institute added in the note released the same day.
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