Omicron variant, Hope: “Risk element mutations”

On the Omicron variant of the covid “the international scientific community is working to better understand its potential impact”. Thus the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, today at the Il Foglio Festival, after the first case identified in Italy. “The sequencing is limited and some of the very first analyzes that are done still indicate an element of risk” for the 32 mutations of the variant which “can represent a significant element and this has led us to take the measures we have taken” with the closure of the flights. from southern African countries, he stressed. Read also At the moment, then explains the minister, “no further measures are on the horizon. Let’s follow the trend and make assessments”.