A study made public Thursday by the Italian National Institute of Health shows that mosquitoes do not transmit the coronavirus, announced the Institute. The World Health Organization (WHO) had previously said that there was no evidence that the disease could be transmitted by these insects, which are capable of transmitting malaria, dengue or other diseases when they bite humans. But the latest study, done in collaboration with IZSVe, an animal health research organization, demonstrated that the tiger mosquito or the common mosquito did not transmit Covid-19. “Tests have shown that the virus, transmitted to mosquitoes by ingesting infected blood, has not been able to duplicate,” the institute said in a statement. It is therefore impossible for insects to transmit the virus through their bites. To demonstrate this, the researchers offered mosquitoes a “meal” of infected blood. However, once ingested, the virus was not able to replicate and mosquitoes were then unable to transmit it through bites.
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