A few more days and the last restriction of the pandemic emergency can be archived in Italy: in fact, the rule on the isolation of positives for Covid-19 will also fall soon.
The provision that decrees the end of the isolation is ready and could reach the Council of Ministers as soon as next Monday.
But the virus has not disappeared and, in fact, it is rearing its head in many countries, and for this reason the vaccination campaign will start again in Italy in the autumn: there is no obligation to immunize, but the vaccine will be available to everyone, and highly recommended For the elderly and frail subjects.
The rule of the end of isolation must be provided for in the framework of an omnibus decree. In addition, immediately after the release of the decree, the Ministry of Health will reportedly send the Regions a circular for autumn vaccinations for Covid-19.
A return to the vaccination obligation is not foreseen, but the objective is to protect elderly and frail subjects above all.
The updated vaccines against the currently most widespread variant, Xbb, will be used.
“Regarding this new phase of vaccination – the director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Francesco Vaia, told ANSA – the exchange with the Regions, scientific societies and interested parties has begun”.
The Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, Vaia stressed, “is giving a great boost to this phase so that, also legislatively, the pandemic is definitely behind us.”
Therefore, a new vaccination sprint is being prepared for the fall, because the threat posed by the SarsCoV2 virus remains.
And the latest data on infections worldwide demonstrate this.
After 4 months of continuous decline, according to the latest bulletin from the World Health Organization, the number of monthly cases of Covid-19 in the world is in fact growing again and exceeds one million.
The rise is the effect of the increase in infections in South Korea. However, deaths continue to decline, amounting to 3,100 per month.
In Europe, on the contrary, infections continue to drop: there were around 60,000 in the last month with a 66% drop compared to the previous month.
As regards Italy, according to the latest weekly bulletin from the Ministry of Health, new Covid cases are growing and there is also an increase in deaths, while the Rt transmissibility index again exceeds the epidemic threshold of 1. There was 5,732 infections. in the week of July 28 to August 3, against 4,129 in the previous seven days, and the incidence went from 7 to 10 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Deaths have also grown, from 25 to 41. Swab tests have decreased: 138,232 from 142,987 and the positivity rate rises from 2.9 to 4.1.
In any case, the situation in hospitals is not critical and the number of hospitalizations remains below the alert threshold.
However, the WHO invites you to interpret the data with caution: “Currently -it warns- the reported cases do not accurately represent the infection rates due to the reduction of tests and reports worldwide.”
And meanwhile there is a new variant of the virus, EG.5, widespread especially in the Far East and Oceania. An overview that leads, in any case, to caution.
This was also underlined by Carlo Signorelli, professor of hygiene at the University of Life and Health of San Raffaele and president of Nitag, the independent group of experts that expresses technical opinions to the ministry on the matter.
From a “scientific point of view – he told ANSA – these indications are necessary and international organizations also suggest it. It is good that the categories that can voluntarily benefit from the vaccines are identified and we are waiting for the new updated vaccines for October “.
The advice, he warns, “is still to get vaccinated again because, especially for certain categories and age groups, the risk of severe and even fatal forms of Covid is greater, and the reinforcement that immunization with the new vaccines supposes is adapted to the dominated variants.
2023-08-05 13:28:21
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