I am 3,702 the positives to Covid tests identified in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 2,697. I am instead 33 the victims in a day (yesterday 70). The currently positive for Covid in Italy are 73,668, according to data from the Ministry of Health, with a decline of 878 in the last 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic there are 4,725,887 cases, 131,688 deaths. The discharged and healed are instead 4,520,531, with an increase of 4,544 compared to yesterday.
I am 485.613 the molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. It had been yesterday 662mil. The positivity rate is 0.76%, up from 0.4% yesterday.
There are 355 patients hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, stable compared to yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions, according to data from the Ministry of Health are 25. The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 2,464, compared to yesterday they are 41 more.
Son to Regions; ‘Proceed immediately on third dose’ – With regard to the timing of administration of the third dose according to the categories already indicated by the Ministry of Health, “given the current wide availability of vaccine and the persistent high potential for administration”, the Regions “proceed immediately to carry out vaccine boosters in parallel to all the categories indicated, without prejudice to the sole constraint of respecting the time interval of at least 6 months from the completion of the primary vaccination cycle “. This is what the Commissioner for the Emergency, Francesco Figliuolo writes to the Regions in a circular. In the circular to the Regions on the third dose, the Commissioner, Francesco Figliuolo, underlines “the propitious opportunity to recall the opportunity of an increasingly systematic and structured recourse to local medicine, with the widest possible involvement of pediatricians of free choice, of general practitioners and pharmacists. This involvement ensures maximum capillarity in a phase in which, with the overlapping of primary cycles, boosters and influenza vaccination, the relationship between citizens and doctors / ordinary health facilities can become an additional added value. of the territory”.
Costa, 100% capacities possible for all sectors within the year – “I think it is reasonable to look at the end of the year as a time limit in which we can reach 100% of the capacities that have not yet reached this percentage. In our country we have basically reopened everything, we only have a limit on capacities in some sectors” . So on Sky TG24 the Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa. “There is a positive fact: there is an increase even for the first doses, I believe that reaching 90% of vaccinables is a goal that can be reached in a few weeks and certainly by the end of the year, it is a percentage that would allow us to manage simpler and more to the country to fully return to normality “.