Covid alarm all over the world after the easing of anti-contagion restrictions in China a few days before the Chinese New Year, the most important holiday of the year, when millions of people will travel again to reunite with family and friends inside of the country or outside the borders after a three-year stop.
From Beijing they speak of a "situation under control" , but according to the British research company Airfinity, there are currently over a million new cases of Covid-19 and at least 5,000 deaths a day in the country. And the situation is likely to get even worse.
«I have ordered, by ordinance , mandatory Covid-19 antigenic swabs , and related sequencing of the virus , for all passengers coming from China and in transit through Italy . The measure is essential to ensure the surveillance and identification of any variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population» the words of the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci.
According to the ministry, " at the moment in Italy there are no worrying variants , but surveillance and prevention, through sequencing, are essential to promptly identify any new dangerous variants".
