Pisa, June 29, 2021 – La Delta variant arrived in Tuscany. And receive two cases of Delta Covid variant, the Pisa hospital-university company was detected in the laboratory of the virology department of theCisanello hospital which examines swabs of the North West Tuscany ASL, that is the area of Massa, Pisa, Livorno, Lucca. This is confirmed by the director of the laboratory, Mauro Pistello. “Last week we identified two Delta variants from the northwestern area of Tuscany. The samples came to us from the hospital in Livorno, however, I don’t think the clinical cases were from that area “.
“That the Delta variant also circulates in our region – adds Professor Pistello – is now a fact and inevitable. It will be necessary to understand if here we have the same ability to spread compared to the English territory. In Great Britainin fact, the population was vaccinated with Astrazeneca and for the most part with one dose, therefore it is probably less protected than in Tuscany and Italy ”.
“For now I think we can rest assured. The situation is under control. Certainly we must not ignore the phenomenon, we must govern it and prevent it from spreading, a bit like we did with the English variant at the beginning. This is because even if the Delta variant causes the disease only in 1 in 100, if there are thousands of infected subjects, eventually death can also occur ”, concludes the director of the laboratory.
Giani: We will try to sequence it
“We take the Delta variant, we will try to sequence it and understand its characteristics, but as long as it moves in a context, like the Tuscan one, which sees 18 infections a day out of 273 municipalities, we face it for what it is with the confidence that vaccination overcome any logic of variant, variantina and sequencing “. This is what Eugenio Giani declares, answering a question about the concerns related to the two cases of the Delta variant discovered in Tuscany. “I don’t want to appear as a person who belittles – he adds – but I also want to be a balanced person who does not want to nitpick what is negative every day”. Today Tuscany, “Minister Speranza told us – adds the president of the Region – is proving to be a virtuous and positive model in the fight against Covid, let’s take what this expresses”. After all, the governor is very satisfied with the evolution of the epidemic curve: “Eighteen cases – he comments – are the absolute record in terms of the lowest number of infections. It is something really beautiful that fills us with pride”. And today it has one more reason to be “very happy”, Tuscany is in fact about to cross the milestone of 3 million vaccinations administered.
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