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With Delta variant speeding up on vaccines, Draghi wants to extend state of emergency after 31 July


The Delta variant of Covid “can be fought with the vaccine because he is unable to evade them. For this it is necessary to give one new accelerated vaccination, especially with second doses. It is a priority that Italian citizens complete the vaccination cycle “, states the Undersecretary for Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, in an interview with the newspaper Il Messaggero, talking about the Indian variant of the virus. “We are more vigilant than worried. We look closely at what’s happening near us, like in the UK where the Delta variant has quickly become the prevalent one,” he explained. “The good news is that there are very few cases of delta-variant Covid-19 among people who have completed the vaccination cycle,” and this is why “our need to enhance and improve sequencing increases. We are far from the goals set by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), according to which each country must be able to sequence at least 5 percent of the cases detected every day with diagnostic tests. 0.7 and 1.45 percent. Despite my numerous requests, we are very late and now we are paying for this extreme slowness “

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