(ANSA) - BARI, 24 DEC - "We have identified the first Casopulian Covid with a strain that has the so-called English variant. The result of this work is the result of a collaboration between the territorial services, laboratory of the Polyclinic of Bari, regional reference center and the 'Istitutozooprofilattico di Puglia and Basilicata ": the councilor of Health Pier Luigi Lopalco announced it.
The Apulian case of positivity to Covid of the Great Britain variant concerns a person who returned to Bari last December 19 from London.
"The swab - explains Lopalco - was taken by an Apulian woman returning from the United Kingdom last December 19. The so-called English variant arouses our attention from a scientific point of view, but at the moment it does not cause concern in citizens, because it is necessary first to verify whether it is actually more contagious or less than the variants already in circulation ".
"The surveillance system that we have put in place - he finds - is proving effective in identifying and isolating these cases promptly. Molecular surveillance is always useful in analyzing the dynamics of the spread of the virus. In Puglia, for example, starting from the end of the summer Spanish was the predominant one, introduced in the region by Apulian tourists returning from Spain ".
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