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Vaccines effect, Covid infections at work in healthcare are decreasing

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ROME (ITALPRESS) – The professional-origin Covid-19 infections reported since the beginning of the pandemic to the date of last April 30 are 171,804, equal to about a quarter of the total reports of accidents at work received by Inail since January 2020 and 4.3% of the total of the national infected communicated by the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) on the same date. Compared to the 165,528 complaints recorded by the previous monthly monitoring, there are 6,276 more cases (+ 3.8%), of which 2,199 referred to April, 1,642 in March, 501 in February and 581 in January of this year, 499 in December, 451 in November and 297 in October, while the remaining 106 are attributable to the other months of 2020. The consolidation of the data makes it possible to acquire information not available in the previous surveys. As emerges from the 16th national report prepared by the Inail Statistical Actuarial Consultancy, published today together with the updated version of the regional in-depth sheets, starting from last February there seems to be a reversal of the trend compared to the trend observed in the previous phases of the pandemic. If health care and social assistance in the last three months falls below the 55% threshold of codified cases, repositioning itself on the same levels as in summer 2020, probably thanks to the effectiveness of vaccinations that involved health personnel as a priority, other production sectors recorded incidences of occupational infections on the rise (although noting, compared to the second wave, a decrease in terms of absolute values, albeit less intense than in health care). This is the case, in particular, of transport, accommodation and catering services, commerce and information and communication services, which collectively collect about 25% of infections of occupational origin between February and April of this year. 6% of the first wave, 18% of the summer period and 8% of the second wave. This trend is confirmed by the analysis of the injured person by profession. The incidence on the total of infections in the category of health technicians (mainly nurses) went, in fact, from 39.1% in the first lockdown period, up to and including May 2020, to 23.3% in the following four-month period June- September, to then return to 39.3% in the period October 2020-January 2021 and fall between February and April of this year to 26.0%. The trend of medical infections was similar, down from 10.1% in the first phase of the pandemic to 5.5% in the “post lockdown” phase, to then register 8.6% in the second wave of infections and move on to 4 , 7% in the last quarter analyzed. With the gradual resumption of activities, other professions have instead seen an increase in the incidence of cases of contagion between the first two phases, a reduction in the third and a rise again in the fourth. The operators and employees in the restaurant business, for example, went from 0.6% in the first period to 3.7% in June-September, and then dropped to 0.7% between October and January and went back to 1. , 3% in the quarter February-April 2021. The increase in terms of incidence on the total of infections observed for some categories in the last quarter, such as secretarial and general affairs clerks (passed from 3.5% to 4, 5%, then 4.3% and 8.7%) or primary school teachers (from 0.03% to 0.5%, then 0.8% and 2.7%), and ‘ due to the significant decrease that has characterized the healthcare professions, both in absolute and relative value. (ITALPRESS). sat / com 21-May-21 11:24

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