Florence, March 26, 2021 – Covid, i new positive coronavirus cases registered in Tuscany I’m 1.527 on 26,050 tests of which 15,093 molecular swabs and 10,957 rapid tests, with a rate of new positives of 5.86% (14,3% on early diagnoses). Both the data of new cases (they were 1,518) and the data of tests (they were 24,739) are slightly higher than yesterday, with the rate of positives slightly decreasing (it was 6.14%) / Bulletin covid Tuscany 25 March
As for the hypothesis of the Tuscany in red zone, the governor of Tuscany shows cautious optimism: “I would say no: we are 248 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, and we have an Rt of 1.09-1.10, so we are in the orange zone. Of course, the formal decision is tomorrow (today, ed) of the Cts but there are all the objective data to be in Orange“.
Giani: “The situation can improve within a month. As it happened in 2020”
The governor of Tuscany: “We try to keep the provinces that have less infections in the orange zone”. HERE THE ARTICLE
The progress of the epidemic
Regarding the trend of the pandemic in the last 24 hours there have been another 1,518 cases, with a positive rate of 6.14%, numbers up compared to yesterday. On the other hand, the total number of hospitalizations is decreasing: they are 1,727, 14 less than yesterday, of which 257 in intensive care, 4 more. Unfortunately, there are another 22 deaths. The province of Florence meanwhile, in the last 24 hours it has 494 more infections and thus exceeds 50,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic: to be precise, there are 50,335.
Vaccinations
Regarding the numbers of vaccinations the monitoring of the Gimbe foundation on the data of the Ministry of Health updated to 24 March, confirms that Tuscany is among the last regions for the number of over 80 vaccinated against Covid, both for the first and for the second dose: overall it has received at least one dose of vaccine 23.7% of over eighty (the national average is 27.4%). 6.1% had both administrations, compared to a national average of 19.1%. And on this front Giani yesterday spoke of a task force with the Civil protection, starting early next week, to get to where there are problems on the vaccination campaign. Speaking again about the vaccination campaign, Giani said that the day before yesterday “we administered 24 thousand doses, a very high figure which shows that when we have vaccines we administer them to the elderly, the extremely frail and those who are entitled to them on the basis of age, and today I foresee that we can still exceed that figure. Then of course we have to stop when we no longer have any. “
Bulletin covid Tuscany 25 March
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Pisa opens the clinic for monoclonals
The new outpatient area of the Cisanello hospital in Pisa will be inaugurated on Saturday “intended for the experimentation of monoclonal antibodies on Covid-positive patients, on which the Pisan hospital first started in Italy”. This was announced by the Pisan University Hospital. The event will be attended by the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, the regional councilor for health, Simone Bezzini, the mayor of Pisa, Michele Conti, the CEO of Aoup, Silvia Briani, the rector of the University, Paolo Mancarella, and the director of infectious diseases of the Aoup, Francesco Menichetti.
Vaccinations open for those born in 1945
Bookings with the AstraZeneca vaccine are open from Thursday 25 March also for citizens born in 1945. Therefore, the age range of those who can vaccinate with AstraZeneca serum is widening: in practice those born between 1941 and 1945 (who do not have turned 80). The agendas for the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, teaching and non-teaching school and university staff, as long as they are in service (categories in completion), continue to remain open. AstraZeneca vaccine can be booked at prenotavaccino.sanita.toscana.it until exhaustion of available places (each place corresponds to a dose of vaccine). Meanwhile, yesterday alone, Wednesday 24 March, 18 thousand total vaccine administrations were carried out in Tuscany, of which almost 13 thousand are related to the over 80s, carried out by general practitioners.
Outbreak in the reception center
“There are 21 out of 27 guests of the Extraordinary Reception Center (Cas) of Sant’Antonio in the municipality of Campagnatico positive for Covid-19”. This was announced by the mayor of Campagnatico (Grosseto) Luca Grisanti after having received news from the ASL which performed the swabs which, after the first five positive ones of the past few days, recorded another 16.
Renzo Ulivieri and the vaccine at “A sheep’s day”
The vaccine against the Covid? “I haven’t done it yet even though I’m over 80. If they contacted me? I asked the family doctor, he said he would let me know but I still haven’t had any answers. I want to queue, I don’t want to go ahead of anyone but honestly I’m a little scared because my turn hasn’t come yet ”. To speak, guest of Un Giorno da Pecora, on Rai Radio1, is Renzo Ulivieri, former coach of many Serie A teams and beyond and now president of Assoallenatori, who today spoke at the broadcast conducted by Geppi Cucciari and Giorgio Lauro.
Florence, dentists respond en masse: “Ready to vaccinate, the Region will call us”
In 24 hours, about 200 dentists of the Order of Florence responded positively to the request to give availability to vaccinate against Covid. HERE THE ARTICLE
Vaccines, chaos for the frail
Problems with the covid vaccine booking portal. 65 thousand frail patients had registered for vaccination, but only 15 thousand doses of Moderna were available to citizens. On Tuesday evening there was an assault on the portal but only 15 thousand were able to book. READ THE ARTICLE
“Vaccini, we will bring Tuscany back to the national average”
In his communications during the regional council, the commissioner Simone Bezzini stated that “we will do from today to Easter at least 120 thousand administrations and from Easter week we will pass to 200 thousand. This should put the Tuscany region back into the national average. As they are expected important supplies we also plan to carry out important vaccinations in the following weeks. We also activated the vaccination machine at home. Which in other realities is already in place. There will be corrections, additions and we will find solutions in case we do not reach the assigned objectives “.
Italian vaccine, experimentation in Pisa
The path that will lead to having an Italian vaccine four tappa of Pisa. In the next few days, the Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for the evaluation of safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of the Italian vaccine for the prevention of Coronavirus promoted by the Italian company Reithera Srl. The study, authorized by Aifa by the National Ethics Committee of the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases of Rome and by the Ethics Committee of Vast North-West Area, will be conducted in the Clinical Pharmacology Center for Drug Testing dell’Aoup, within the Department of Medicine and Oncology directed by Professor Mario Petrini, the only Tuscan center of the 26 identified at national level, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Giovanni Gori, principal investigator of the clinical trial.
Monoclonal antibodies also in Tuscany
On Saturday 27 March, the administration will start in Tuscany of the first 1,080 monoclonal antibodies against the coronavirus of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. The campaign, it was announced today, will start in Pisa and will be attended by the president of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, and the regional councilor for health, Simone Bezzini. “So far – underlined Giani during a press conference – there has been talk of a cocktail of various drugs to get by and in any case to heal many people, there has been talk of vaccines, but never of a specific medicine. The first medicine against Covid is monoclonal antibodies. While waiting to put ours into operation, we have urged the ministry a lot to have some samples of the antibodies that they come from the United States. Finally 250 have arrived, another 830 will arrive by 31 March. In all, 1,080 life-saving monoclonal antibodies “.
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