Omicron variant of the coronavirus, up to 12 noon today, starting yesterday, in the EU and SEE countries (Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein), another 30 cases have been detected, for a total of 109 cases so far, in 16 states. The ECDC communicates it. In Italy, the cases detected so far are 9; Portugal, which maintains strong ties with Angola and Mozambique, former colonies, is the one that registers the most, in all 19. Other “probable” cases are under examination.
The majority of positives to the variant discovered in South Africa traveled to the continent. All cases for which indications are available on the intensity of symptoms are asymptomatic or mild, reports the ECDC. So far, no deaths have been recorded among the positives to the Omicron variant, although, the Stockholm-based agency warns, the number of cases is too low to understand whether the spectrum of symptoms caused by the variant differs from that of the previous ones. versions of the Sars-CoV-2.
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