A patient in Italy has been detected infected with the more contagious strain of COVID-19 recently discovered in the UK, the Italian health ministry announced on Sunday.
The Ministry of Health said that the patient and his partner returned to Italy from Great Britain in the last days with a flight that landed at Fiumicino airport in Rome. The couple is currently isolated, Reuters reported.
The patient’s contraction with the new strain is taking place as at least six countries have temporarily suspended travel to the UK, with no official exceptions, after British officials reported the new strain, which appears to be more contagious.
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Italy and the Netherlands instituted flight suspensions on Sunday in the United Kingdom, against the background of the increase in the number of cases in the country and the discovery of the more transmissible strain.
Italy has banned anyone from entering the UK for the past 14 days, The Associated Press reported Sunday.
But he was a general surgeon Vivek Murthy
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“Although it appears to be more transmissible, we do not yet have evidence that it is a more deadly virus for a person who acquires it,” he said, adding that there is no evidence that coronavirus vaccines would be less effective against the strain.
Italy was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year and recorded nearly 2 million cases and 68,799 deaths, the fifth-highest death toll in any country since its inception. Johns Hopkins University.
The United Kingdom has documented just over 2 million cases and 67,503 deaths, the sixth largest number of cases and deaths in any country.