Delta variant, Crisanti: “Destined to become dominant in Italy”

“If what the British said is true, that it has a higher transmission index, it is clear that it has a competitive advantage and therefore will expand” “The Delta variant of Sars-CoV-2 is destined to become dominant in Italy . If what the British said is true, that it has a higher transmission rate, it is clear that it has a competitive advantage and therefore will expand. ” Thus the virologist Andrea Crisanti, director of the Molecular Medicine Department of the University of Padua, at Adnkronos Salute, who looks at the possible evolution of the Delta variant on the national territory, after the first outbreaks linked to the mutant, identified for the first, have been intercepted. once in India and has already become dominant in GB. According to estimates published in the ‘Financial Times’, the variant in question would already be around 20% in Italy, even if the latest official surveys still reported 1%.