Following the suspected cases of Hantavirus reported aboard a KLM flight and the activation of tests on several possible contacts in Italy, reassuring results from virological tests have now arrived. The Ministry of Health announces that the tests carried out yesterday in Milan on the British tourist located and placed in quarantine because he was on board the St. Helena–Johannesburg flight returned negative results . The test carried out on the companion who was traveling with him in Italy was also negative. Negative results also appeared for the other cases under observation: the young Calabrian man in self-isolation and the tourist hospitalized in Messina for pneumonia , who came from an endemic area of Argentina. The biological samples for both were analyzed at the Spallanzani Institute in Rome.
Italy had received the notification from the British government, and the Ministry of Health, with the support of the Ministry of the Interior, had located the tourist, contacting the Lombardy Region, which immediately took action. The man was then transferred to Sacco Hospital in Milan for quarantine, in accordance with the ministerial circular. A person traveling with him was also placed in isolation as a precaution. Meanwhile, the case of the 25-year-old Calabrian man in quarantine was taken care of yesterday at the Spallanzani Hospital , but only through the biological samples analyzed by the Roman institute's laboratories.
In monitoring possible infections, alongside the Calabrian case, a series of contacts deemed at risk remained under observation. However, reassuring news arrived in Veneto: the South African patient in self-isolation had tested negative for Hantavirus, also performed by the Spallanzani Institute. The seafarer from Torre del Greco, also in self-quarantine after traveling on the same plane, remained under observation. The ASL Napoli 3 Sud (Local Health Authority of Naples 3 South) reported that the young man "was well and showed no symptoms attributable to Hantavirus," with daily checks and no indication, at this time, of further testing from national authorities.
