There are 8,585 coronavirus swab positives in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
There are 445 victims. There are 68,681 coronavirus swabs carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday there were 59,879.
Today's positive rate is 12.5%, down from 14.8% yesterday.
Patients in intensive care for Covid-19 are down by 15, in the balance between entries and exits, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Daily admissions are 167. In total, 2,565 people are hospitalized in intensive care.
On the other hand, the people treated in the ordinary wards are 23,932, an increase of 361 units compared to yesterday.
Similar English variant discovered in Brescia. Isolated in August at the Spedali Civili
- "A variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus similar to the English one, but earlier than that discovered in England, was isolated in the Brescia laboratories".
Professor Arnaldo Caruso, president of the Italian Society of Virology, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Brescia and director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology of the Spedali Civili, explains this to ANSA.
"The variant of the virus was isolated in August on an asymptomatic patient, who was not hospitalized at the Civil of Brescia, who had been struggling with covid for months. The situation intrigued us and now we can say that a variant could circulate in Italy virus similar to the English one. But for times it can be considered an ancestor of the English one ".
Professor Caruso then adds: "This variant has mutation points in the Spike protein, at position 501".
The virologist finally announces.
"We are working to understand if the vaccine is able to neutralize this variation of the virus as well. Personally I think so, but we have yet to verify it"