Covid Lombardia Bulletin today 4 December: 4,533 new cases and 147 deaths - Chronicle

Milan, 4 December 2020 – Covid Rules, la Lombardy it pushes for a softening after that the Christmas Dpcm signed yesterday reiterated the hard line of the Government on travel during holiday season. The region, which if it were to confirm the trend of the last period should become yellow zone starting from 11 December, pushes for an intervention by Parliament so that the most rigid measures can be mitigated, starting from ban on moving between municipalities in the days of Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year. A request that finds also agree the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco. Furthermore, the governor Attilio Fontana feared the risk of a mass displacement on the weekend of 19-20 December, on the eve of the entry into force of government measures.

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Covid Lombardy Bulletin

Meanwhile today the Lombardy makes register 4,533 new cases coronavirus and 147 dead (22,773 in total since the beginning of the epidemic). Swabs made in the last 24 hours
there were 42,276, for one report new positives / swabs equal to 10,7%. Yesterday, compared to 36,271 swabs, there were 3,751 infections and 347 deaths, with a report npositives / swabs of 10.3%.

Coronavirus: national data / Pdf

I’m 24.009 new cases of coronavirus in Italy in the last 24 hours, compared to 212,741 swabs performed. The victims are 814 while the healed / discharged are 25,576. This is what is reported in the newspaper Covid bulletin in Italy issued by the Ministry of Health and Civil Protection. Meanwhile, the Rt index in Italy returns below 1 for the first time in five weeks: nin the week 23-29 November the estimated Rt is 0.91, as recorded in the weekly monitoring report of the Ministry of Health and Iss.

Covid and Christmas: the Humanitas vademecum

The Christmas holidays are therefore at the center of the debate and so on Humanitas has drawn up a vademecum about how avoid Covid at Christmas: four tips for spending the holidays swithout the risk of spreading the infection during family lunches and dinners.

Virus and vitamin D

In the meantime, the exceptional is still on the agenda discovery of the researchers of the San Matteo di Pavia they would have established a relationship between Covid and vitamin D. The study was more published in the prestigious trade journal ‘Clinical Nutrition’ and now it’s the hunt for supplements, though Riccardo Caccialanza, Director of the San Matteo Complex Clinical Nutrition Operational Unit and signatory of the work warns: “Vitamin D is not the panacea, it does not replace the vaccine and does not protect against contagion by replacing the devices and measures that have been recommended for months and must not be disregarded. However, it can be one valuable ally to optimize therapies and prevent the more severe forms of some infections. “

Herd immunity

Another study analyzes the high levels of population serum immunity (in some cases higher than 42%) found in some areas of Bergmasca, one of the most affected areas in the world by Covid-19 during the first wave. According to research recently published on ‘International Journal of Public Health’, the result of the collaboration between the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, the University of Pavia and Ats Bergamo, with the important contribution of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, these numbers are close to the so-called ‘herd immunity’.