The new variant of Covid-19, which was first reported in the UK has raised alarm in Europe and around the world due to the little data known so far about it.
Should we worry?
According to the Chief of Emergency, Skënder Bratajt there is no need to panic. The doctor, invited to "Open" said that mutations have occurred all the time, but the transmissibility of the latter is higher than in others.
"We have to get the message across that mutations have been, are and will be. Viruses are of this nature. This type is more contagious, it spreads faster, but not that it causes more serious diseases. Mutations are among the enzymes that "They link the virus to the cell, but the changes in the virus need to be monitored. Can we detect it? No, but we are not the only ones who can't. Britain has the detection system, but we do not," he said.
The same thing was said by Eugena Tomini. Asked this morning on "Wake Up", the epidemiologist said that the new variant is "a kind of alarm, but there is no room for panic. Among other things, she said that during the last week the number of positivity and hospitalized patients has decreased.
As for the new variant of the virus - with its 23 variants - it is known to be more contagious than other variants of the coronavirus. There is currently no evidence that approved vaccines will not be effective for the new variant.
