Slight drop in the epidemic curve in Italy, which had been growing for several days. The new cases in the last 24 hours are 3,725 against 3,908 yesterday. Reduction in the number of tampons, 403,715 (yesterday 491,574) with a positivity rate that rises to 0.9% (+ 0.1%). Deaths decreased, 24 (yesterday 39), for a total of 131,826 victims since the beginning of the epidemic. Intensive care units increased by 3 units (yesterday -5) and are 341 with 18 admissions on the day, as are ordinary hospitalizations, which have risen for a few days: there are 18 more (yesterday +12) and 2,473 in all. This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
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The region with the most cases today is Campania (+467), followed by Lazio (+459), Veneto (+398) and Lombardy (+393). The total cases are 4,741,185. The healed are 2,940 (yesterday 3,579) for a total of 4,534,584. On the rise the number of currently positive, 759 (yesterday 287) and are 74,775 overall. Of these, 71,961 patients are in home isolation (yesterday 71,223).
The vaccination plan meanwhile, the Italian government is proceeding at full speed and the 130,000 doses administered in February are a distant memory: with over 500,000 doses per day, 86% of citizens are now vaccinated. The emergency, which confirms the importance of vaccine boosters, concerns the health workers among which infections are on the rise and have reached 1,444 in the last 30 days. A picture that is also worrying in light of the Delta variant of the SarsCoV2 virus, now dominant and with respect to which vaccines appear to lose their effectiveness slightly.
As for theextension of the third dose to the whole population, a prediction comes from Undersecretary for Health Andrea Costa: «It is not up to politics to decide who and when to administer it, we await scientific indications. To date we have indications that tell us to proceed with the Over 60, in addition to the other categories indicated, but afterwards I think it is reasonable to think that already by the end of the year we will proceed to the extension of the audience and it will probably come to give the third to the whole audience of vaccinables “. The question ofuse of the Green Pass and in this regard Costa has clarified that 105 million have already been downloaded and that when the 90% vaccinated quota has been reached, the restrictive measures can be reviewed, including the application of the green card.