Since when does the Omicron variant circulate in Europe?

[EN VIDÉO] When did the coronavirus appear? While the first official case recorded in Italy dates from February 20, 2020, patients with antibodies against the coronavirus have been identified in the country as early as September 2019. How can a virus, which was subsequently found to be also deadly, has- could he have gone unnoticed for months?

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On November 24, 2021, South Africa reported to the World Health Organization (Health: what is the WHO?
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The efforts of screening and of sequencing of the South African government have lifted the veil on this variant like no other. He belongs to the line B.1.1.529 whose origins La … “data-image =” https://cdn.futura-sciences.com/buildsv6/images/midioriginal/8/9/f/89f394501a_50034702_arbre-phylo -vivant-simplifie-user-a1-wiki-dp.jpg “data-url =” https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/definitions/classification-vivant-phylogenie-4372/ “data-more =” Read more “>phylogénétiques Still elude scientists, as are the effects of its hyper-mutated S protein on its behavior. In the wake of this report, many countries suspended their air links with South Africa and its neighbors, also concerned by the figurative sense: sudden appearance of an idea, a social, economic fact, Politics.
The term emergence is used in many fields.
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The Omicron variant present in the Netherlands and Scotland mid-November

In a press release published on November 30, 2021The National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) of the Netherlands indicates that cases of the Omicron variant have been identified in the country during samples taken between 19 and 23 November 2021. Due to a an abnormality in the S protein during tests PCR, the RIVM requested sequencing to confirm the nature of the SARS-CoV-2 present. As of November 29, 2021, the results are in: two of these samples are positive for the Omicron variant. The link with South Africa is not confirmed. On November 26, 2021, 641 passengers on a flight from South Africa were screened at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Among them, 61 cases of Covid-19, including 14 cases of the Omicron variant have been identified.

In Scotland, nine cases of the Omicron variant have been confirmed from November 20, 2021, four days before the report to the WHO. These infected individuals, gathered for a private party, did not a priori no direct link to South Africa or contact with a third party who has recently traveled to the country. Surveys contact tracing are still in progress to trace the source of the contamination.

Omicron outside South Africa prior to reporting and flight restrictions

If the report from South Africa took place on November 24, 2021, a sample in which the Omicron variant was identified date of November 9, 2021. This is the oldest confirmed case known to date. The time for health authorities to sequence, assemble, understand and submit the genome of the Omicron variant at WHO and initiatives that follow the emergence of variants in the world, he had already left the territory. Air restrictions decided after the fact have not changed the situation. South Africa has felt sanctioned for reporting a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the contagiousness and severity of which are not yet known.

At the time of writing, around 20 countries have declared the presence of the Omicron variant on their territory. In South Africa, it represents 73.5% of the variants sequenced over the past four weeks.