(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 28 - The "China problem today must be tackled with promptness and international cohesion. The data, few and not very transparent, are creating fear in the international community, including the scientific one".
It is a passage from Spallanzani's document on the "current scenario" of Covid.
The fear "is that, in a country with a high percentage of non-vaccinated people in which ineffective vaccines have been used which give low population protection, such a strong exponential growth of infections could generate the selection of a new variant, much more immune-evasive and transmissible".
The risk, Spallanzani reasons, is that the new variant "ferries the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 beyond Omicron, the globally dominant variant since the end of 2021".
Lo Spallanzani also states that "at the moment, the little information arriving from China indicates that the variants that are fueling this new massive wave of infections are the same ones that have already been circulating globally for some time, therefore still within the sub-variants of Omicron".
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