Covid, the Omicron variant lands in Veneto: the announcement of president Zaia
The Omicron variant of Covid 19 was sequenced for the first time in Veneto in the laboratories of the Zooprophylactic Institute of the Venezie. The news is given by the President of the Region Luca Zaia. It is a male person, resident in the Vicenza area, returned from a business trip to South Africa.
The patient, which results vaccinated, And negative result on a first swab done on his return, but, perceiving some slight symptoms, he made a second one, which gave a positive result, highlighting the Omicron variant at the end of sequencing.
At the moment it is paucisymptomatic quarantined at home with his wife and two children. Their wife and one of the two children are positive, also tested positive for the swab and paucisymptomatic. For them the sequencing is still in progress.
“We are on full alert on the whole front – he underlines Zaia – and this novelty, not beautiful but expected, demonstrates that the network of controls, buffers and sequencing works effectively. We are expressing the maximum effort – adds the President – with one daily average of about one hundred thousand tampons and with an efficient sequencing system like that Izs. We will continue with this control and prevention effort which has been, is and will be fundamental ”.
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