There are 28,368 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 53,253. The victims are 115 instead, up from 90 yesterday.
There are 192,782 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours. Yesterday there were 352,265. The positivity rate is 14.7%, down from 15.1% yesterday. 466 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, one more than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses. The daily admissions are 30. The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are 10,256, or 218 more than yesterday.
The region with the highest number of cases today is Lazio with 3,780 infections, followed by Emilia Romagna (+2,909), Campania (+2,862), Piedmont (+2,832), and Lombardy (+2,560). Total cases since the start of the pandemic have risen to 15,320,753. The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are 42,384 (yesterday 45,139) for a total that rises to 13,927,128. The currently positives return to decline, 13,794 less (yesterday + 8,691), 1,232,762 in all. Of these, 1,222,040 are in home isolation.
Hope: in the autumn we will evaluate the fourth dose extension
“While the war has replaced covid in the media, in reality it has simply added itself. On this we will have to make an important communication effort and insist on vaccination. Now our health authorities have ordered the second booster, the so-called fourth dose, for eighty-year-olds. , guests of the nursing homes and frail elderly people. In the autumn we will evaluate a more extensive recall also for the other age groups. I am pleased that EMA and ECDC have also given the same line to other European countries “. This is how health minister Roberto Hope in an interview published today in the newspaper ‘la stampa’.
The collection of epidemiological data continues
The collection of aggregate epidemiological data of Covid-19 cases continues even after the end of the state of emergency. This is what is read in a circular from the Ministry of Health signed by the Director General of Health Prevention, Giovanni Rezza and by the Director General of Health Planning, Andrea Urbani. The circular details the criteria. “After March 31, 2022, given the current scenario, Regions and Autonomous Provinces collect the data” and “communicate them daily to the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health. These methods will be subject to successive and progressive re-evaluations with the Regions and the autonomous provinces “.
Vaccinations in Italy
The doses of the anti Covid 19 vaccine administered so far in Italy are 136,206,983 equal to 96.0% of the 141,899,967 delivered (in detail, 95,340,593 Pfizer / BioNTech, 25,446,308 Moderna, 11,514,521 Vaxzevria, 6,726,089 Pfizer Pediatric, 1,849,456 Janssen and 1,023,000 Novavax). It can be read in the report of the Ministry of Health updated at 06.17 today. Among those over 12, 49,362,518 have received at least one dose, equal to 91.43% of the population, while the total of those who have received the additional / booster dose is 39,041,599, equal to 83 , 61%. In the 5-11 age group, the children who received at least one dose amounted to 1,379,032, equal to 37.72%, while the total vaccination cycle concerns 1,244,157 children equal to 34.03%.
WHO: insufficient vaccination coverage in 21 countries
In 21 countries, vaccination coverage against Covid-19 is still below 10% of the population, leaving the most vulnerable at high risk. This is highlighted by the WHO strategic group of experts (Sage) on vaccinations, which has revised its indications on vaccinations, not just Covid. The available data also indicates that “high priority groups’ coverage for vaccination against Covid-19” is insufficient to provide the necessary protection against serious illness and death. Overall coverage of health workers reaches 65%, but it is even lower than 50% in some WHO regions, and the coverage of the elderly varies from 69% to 24% in some regions “.
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