(ANSA) - Rome, February 26 - From today swabs will be taken
only on people who show symptoms of the coronavirus, the Higher
Health Institute (ISS) said Wednesday.
ISS director Franco Locatelli said swabs taken so far had
turned out negative in 95% of cases.
This confirmed, Locatelli said, that the risk of contagion
"is elevated in symptomatic subjects while it is markedly lower
in asymptomatic subjects".
Hence "the decision to carry out swabs only on symptomatic
subjects, seeing as how we are in a period of pandemic".
Coroanvirus: Swabs only for people with symptoms
So far 95% showed negative results