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).
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.
11:28 – Modern 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”.
10:39 – 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 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.