Milan, 2 December 2020 – These are decisive hours for new Prime Minister Conte’s Dpcm, which will dictate the rules of Christmas 2020. The goal is to report the index National RT below the 1 and avert the risk of a third pandemic wave. While the new decree is outlined, in Lombardy eyes remain focused on data from the Covid-19 emergency that today mark a new decline in infections: 3,425 new cases (342 of which ‘weakly positive’) against 4,048 yesterday. Also decreasing deaths that go down to 175 against 249 yesterday and 208 on Monday. The number of victims since the beginning of the emergency in the region thus reaches 22,279. Positive numbers if we consider that the drop in infections and deaths also comes with a greater number of tampons processed: 36,077, over 1,200 more than yesterday. And the buffer / positive ratio, which today stands at 9.4%. The situation on the hospital front is slowly but steadily improving, where the terapie intensive they registered 21 fewer hospitalizations (855 beds currently occupied). Also i admissions to other wards (-120), with the total down to 7,222. Added to this is the increase in patients recovered / discharged: +5,487, for a total of 274,189, of which 6,021 discharged and 268,168 recovered.
Data from the Lombard provinces
After a couple of days under the thousand new cases and even yesterday third for number of positives after Varese and Como, today Milano records a new surge in infections. In the metropolitan area, 1,109 cases have been ascertained in the last 24 hours, of which 438 in the city. While Varese, after yesterday’s blaze with 1,036 positives, today marks 362 new cases. In sharp decline too How, which goes from 893 yesterday to 316 today. The provinces of Brescia with 303 new cases, Mantua +265, Monza +244, Sondrio +192, Pavia +187, Bergamo +130 e Cremona 125. In sharp detachment Lodi: +55 e Lecco +53.
The situation in Italy / Pdf
A slight increase i Covid infections in Italy: Today I am 20.709, against 19,350 yesterday, but with 25 thousand tampons more, 207.143. So much so that the swab-positive ratio for the first time since 22 October falls below 10%. Today is al 9,99%, against 10.62% of yesterday. I deaths: today 684 against 785 yesterday, for a total of 57,045 since the start of the pandemic. The most affected region remains there Lombardy with 3,425 new cases, followed by Veneto 2,782 positive in 24 hours and Campania: 1,842 infections.
Hope: free vaccine for all Italians
The Minister of Health Roberto Speranza spoke today of the Covid vaccine: “The purchase of the vaccine is centralized and it will be given free to all Italiansi “. It is likely that two doses will be needed for each vaccination, Italy has 202 million dose options. The first doses may begin to be available from January. two given by Ema: 209 December for vaccine Pfizer and January 12 for vaccine Modern. “From these companies we will have 8 million doses from Pfizer and 1,346 thousand doses from Moderna – he explained -. The heart of the vaccination campaign is expected to be between next spring and summerand “.” The race against time that the scientific community is carrying out goes hand in hand with maximum safety and full compliance with all guarantee and control protocols “, underlined the minister illustrating the anti-vaccination plan to the Senate. covid, ensuring that “having effective and safe vaccines is a priority that cannot be subordinated or conditioned by any other interests”.
New Dpcm: the division of Italy into zones remains
In view of the Dpcm it seems certain it is the maintenance of Italy divided by risk bands. “With the next Dpcm we must continue with serious and rigorous measures – said the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza -. There are two priorities: maintaining the classification of the Regions into 3 risk bands because the basic system is correct and is working, and reinforcing the envisaged limitations that must also be reinforced in a European coordination that becomes indispensable: therefore they must be limited as much as possible non-essential contacts between people “.” At Christmas we will need extreme seriousness to avoid new, heavy closures “, added Speranza. The priority is therefore avoid a third wave to avoid overlapping vaccine distribution. Intentions confirmed by the words of the Lombard president Attilio Fontana that yesterday, after a summit with the executive, he explained that on the part of the government there is “the will to maintain, for the next month, a series of fairly strict measures. Such as, for example, the prohibition of transfer between the Regions, special attention for the holidays at Christmas and New Year, e limitations, or even prohibitions, concerning ski resorts “.
The survey on young people and Covid
Give one survey carried out in October by students of the Communication Sciences course of the University of Insubria a photograph emerges of young people from all over Italy – aged 18 to 30 – at the time of Covid. 8,900 high school students, university students and workers were interviewed (about 25%). The singer-songwriter Eros Ramazzotti has made his social pages available. “In such a particular and delicate moment of our life – said the singer – all over the world, the work and commitment of the students of the University of Insubria is a strong signal of how young people can improve things with maturity and seriousness. They are a very important example for our future “. The results of the Survey underline that i young people have experienced Covid: with anguish and concern (57%) while showing a remarkable spirit of adaptation to reality (40%). Covid has also affected romantic relationships. Although 63% say they are stable, for 23% they have deteriorated and only 12% consider them improved. However, concerns do not recede: 15% of those questioned declared themselves damaged by the coronavirus. In fact, 6% has lost their job, 5% is in danger of losing it and 4% is in layoffs.
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