Tests were activated on the 133 passengers on the flight from South Africa that landed in Fiumicino on 11 November and on which the Eni employee subsequently infected by the Omicron variant was traveling.
The Lazio Region, once it had the passenger list, immediately arranged the swabs and tracing.
The swabs will then be sequenced at the Spallanzani Institute to verify any other cases of Omicron variant.
Monitoring of passengers arriving at Fiumicino airport from risk areas
after the case of the first infected with the Omicron variant registered in Italy. In the case of passengers arriving from areas at risk, we learn from airport security sources, "airline companies are required to deliver passenger lists and these are picked up directly alongside, to then be subjected to the usual health checks". Furthermore, these travelers are required, before entering Italy, to fill in the Passenger Locator Form, the digital localization form, and to undergo a molecular or antigenic swab 72 hours before the trip. They must also communicate their entry into Italy to the Prevention Department ofcompetent healthcare company for the area and must reach their final destination only by private vehicle and undergo fiduciary isolation indicated in the Passenger Locator Form for 10 days. No direct flights from South Africa land at Fiumicino airport from 1 October.
The Caserta patient infected with the Omicron variant
is an Eni employee: he allegedly landed at Fiumicino airport which departed from South Africa - coming from Mozambique - on 11 November last.
At the time of departure he had no symptoms and was negative for Covid.
After arriving at the Roman airport he went home to spend a few days with his family in Caserta, where he lives with his wife, two children and two in-laws.
On 15 November he left by plane - reports Repubblica - from the airport of Capodichino (Naples) to Milan to undergo a medical examination scheduled by his company.
He should therefore have returned to Mozambique.
On November 16 - after a night spent in a hotel in the Lombard capital - he goes to the health facility for the visit and is also subjected to a Covid swab. The same day he leaves from Milan for Fiumicino where he should have embarked to return to Africa, but during the journey he is informed of his positivity; then continues home to Caserta.
The results of the sequencing on the genetic material of the five family members of the manager from Caserta who contracted the Omicron variant are expected in the next few hours, more likely for tomorrow. This was announced by the general manager of the ASL of Caserta Ferdinando Russo. The swabs performed so far have highlighted the positivity to Covid of the manager's wife, in-laws and two children, who live in the same house, and confirmation is now awaited that it is also for them the South African variant.
The analyzes will indicate that his family members are also positive and the classes of the two children are placed in quarantine. Following the emergence of the Omicron alarm, insights are made on his case, coming from the man precisely from the area at risk. The analyzes of the Sacco hospital in Milan sequenced the new variant. Taken, both in Lombardy and in Campania, the race to trace the contacts of the man during his stay in Italy.
Two primary school classes in Caserta in isolation for precautionary reasons following the first case of positivity to the Omicron variant
found in a manager returning from Mozambique;
these are the classes attended by the two sons of the man, both positive, where, however, no new cases have emerged.
In recent days the ASL of Caserta has traced all the contacts made by the man and by his relatives, in particular by his children, carrying out a few dozen swabs to the pupils and teachers of the two classes;
already two series of tests carried out after five days, and both have given negative results.
The health conditions of 'patient zero' and of his five cohabiting family members are good
: in all four adults, all vaccinated, and two children. "The situation is under control - says the general manager of the ASL of Caserta Ferdinando Russo - patient zero and his family members have a very low viral load, and this, I am referring in particular to adults, is due to the fact that they are vaccinated with two doses ". Russo stresses that the ASL continues to follow the situation on the school side "with the utmost attention", with the two elementary classes attended by the manager's children in precautionary isolation. Regarding the efficacy of vaccines, the general director of the ASL of Caserta also emphasizes another fact: of the eight Covid patients hospitalized in intensive care in the province's hospitals, none are vaccinated, as well as the 13 who are in the sub-intensive .
The Italian patient affected by the Omicron variant
"had no contact with other people, either in the workplace or in the non-working environment, in the Lombardy region".
This is what is learned from internal sources of the Lombardy Region Welfare Department.
The Campania engineer - it is learned - never went to his work site in Milan and, as a precaution, the hospitals visited for the surveillance of the health workers who visited the case were informed.
