COVID: Gryphon variant 2% in Italy, rate stable - ISS

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 30 - The new COVID-19 Gryphon variant that originated in China is at 2% in Italy and its rate is stable, the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said in its monthly assessment of new variants Friday.
    In Italy, at the moment, the sequences present in the Icogen platform related to the XBB variant named Gryphon, which has probably contributed to the explosion of Covid cases in China, amount to 2% of the total, a value that is substantially stable compared to the November bulletin november bulletin, said the ISSs monthly bulletin on the variants, for December, which reports the genomic sequences deposited weekly by regional laboratories on the Icogen (Italian Covid-19 Genomic) and ISS platform. (ANSA).