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LIVE COVID-19 – Draghi: “At the end of September 80% of Italians will be vaccinated”. The Spallanzani bulletin. US study: vaccine efficacy decreased with the Delta variant. WHO investigates the MU variant

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The Ministry of Health has released the bulletin on the coronavirus situation in Italy: 6.503 new cases, the dead are 69. The daily swabs carried out are 303.717, including rapid tests. The percentage of positives is all 2,1%. Intensive care is –4 compared to yesterday. Ordinary hospitalizations are also decreasing (-21).

16:54 – “I have to thank the managers and travelers” for having fully adhered to the new provisions on the obligation to have a green pass for transport. This was stated by the Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini at the end of the Council of Ministers, specifying that “yesterday evening Trenitalia informed us that the number of people yesterday without a green pass on long-distance trains was 0.2% of passengers, or just over 70 people”. A fact that, he says, “testifies to the precision of the controls but also the citizens’ adherence to these new measures”.

16:20 – “The campaign is proceeding swiftly, towards the end of September 80% of the population will be vaccinated, already today we are 70% fully vaccinated”. The prime minister said it, Mario Draghi, at a press conference.

15:55 – On the variant Mu of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, “before launching uncontrollable alarmisms, a justified prudence is required to be maintained until this mutation is officially defined Voc (Variant of Concern), given that at the moment it is still a Voi (Variant of Interest ). The World Health Organization is right to highlight its presence, but we would do even better if, while not ignoring its existence, we avoided catastrophic leaks forward. In this moment, as well as not useful and indeed harmful “, they would be” all in all also unmotivated “. This was underlined by the clinical immunologist and allergist Mauro Minelli, coordinator for Southern Italy of the Foundation for Personalized Medicine.

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15:26 – In Rome “we need to create a hybridization of places. Combine physical proximity to the use of the digital platform. It is a path that we have begun to take but we want to do more. A bar, a shop, a pharmacy: these are places which are also networks of a community of services and therefore of care. Maybe the same person who sells the newspaper helps those who do not know how to use the internet to practice the Green pass “. He said it Roberto Gualtieri, candidate for mayor of Rome for the center-left, during the meeting “The Revolution of the cities”. Proximity ecological transformation, participation with Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, ā€‹ā€‹and Francesca Bria, President of the National Fund for Innovation.

15:01 – “The Delta variant, due to its greater contagiousness, can more easily infect children, as is evident. And for the fragile ones, due to other pathologies, there are evidently more risks. We have hospitalized several positive patients and with other pathologies. Fortunately we have used, thanks to the collaboration with Aifa, monoclonal antibodies and we have had good results, avoiding progression in serious situations, even in patients with very important problems “. He reveals it Paolo Rossi, immunologist and pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Bambino GesĆ¹ hospital in Rome. With this in mind “it is particularly important to vaccinate fragile children against COVID-19 and this should be possible soon – continues Rossi – the regulatory authorities are in fact close to approving vaccination for the age groups of the little ones. for 6-12 years “, concludes Rossi.

14:32 – The risk of getting sick of the so-called “Long Covid” among children it is much lower than previously thought. According to a British study carried out by some of the leading experts in the sector and coordinated by University College London. As stated on the BBC website, the research is based on a sample including English children between the ages of 11 and 17 who tested positive for COVID-19 in the last September-March period. It was found that between 2% and 14% of them still had symptoms attributable to the infection after 15 weeks. But in a few cases the after-effects of the disease had prompted their families to turn to the National Health Service (NHS) because their children were forced to stay in bed or could not attend school.

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13:50 – At the moment, 76 positive people at Covid are hospitalized Spallanzani From Rome. Of these, one is in the process of resigning. In intensive care there are 16. This is what emerges from the bulletin of the institute for infectious diseases. The patients discharged and transferred home or to other local structures, this morning, are 3,078.

13:20 – After the spread of the Delta variant and the reduction of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain the pandemic, the effectiveness of vaccination given to employees of the University of California San Diego Health (UCSDH) has significantly decreased. This is documented by a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, conducted by scientists from UCSDH and the University of California at San Diego, who monitored the rate of contagion among the health workers of the facility.

12:27 – The curve of the new Covid in infections is still growing, rather than lowering Veneto. In the last 24 hours, 844 new positives were found, one of the highest figures in recent weeks, and there are also 2 victims. Yesterday the infected people found with the swabs were 691. This was reported by the regional bulletin.

11:28Modern plans to submit data relating to the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to the United States drug regulatory body, the Food and Drug Administration (Fda), to the European one (EMA) and to those of other countries in the coming days the world. This was announced by the biotech company itself.

10:57 – The trade unions have given their assent “to a provision that, in application of our Charter, the Government decides to take in order to make vaccination compulsory as a health treatment for all citizens of our country”.

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10:39Ā – As reported by the site of SkyTg24, Google has postponed the return of employees to the office, initially scheduled for next October, to next January.

10:30 – “The third dose? Only if really useful it doesn’t have to be a requirement of the pharmaceutical industry: there is an ongoing research by the American government to test the results in terms of efficacy and safety, let’s see what it leads to. “These are the statements of the pharmacologist Silvio Garattini, reported from the site of SkyTg24: “The idea of ā€‹ā€‹the need for the third dose is certainly gaining ground for those with particular frailties, for example those who have undergone an organ transplant or are ill with cancer; for others it is better to wait for the results of the research, the immunity is not just made up of antibodies, there are different aspects to evaluate “.

10:00 – WHO is investigating the MU variant, the new variant identified in Colombia at the beginning of the year. The incidence is less than 0.1%.

9:45 – As reported by The sun 24 hours, will soon be able to change the rules for smart working for employees of the Public Administration. The Government is studying the most suitable solution for the return in the presence of employees.

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