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Coronavirus, the latest news from Friuli Venezia Giulia and Italy on Covid

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Crisanti: “Untimely reopening, an extra month was needed”
Andrea Crisanti, director of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padua, spoke to Sky Tg24: «I have always said that these reopenings were untimely. We had to wait a little longer to create a response capacity of the national health system, because we are at a level where saturation can be easily reached. Then we didn’t create the infrastructure to control the variants. With a further month we could have decreased cases, decreased pressure on the health system and created a variant monitoring system ».

Slovenia eliminates the crossings at the borders with Italy and Austria

The government of Ljubljana, which met on the afternoon of Monday 26 April, decided that starting from Wednesday 28 there will no longer be any police checkpoints at the borders with Italy and Austria. Italy, however, still remains a country in the “red zone” for Slovenia, so if you want to enter Slovenia without a ten-day quarantine, the same rules apply as before. Whoever is stopped in Slovenia and does not have the documentation required for entry without quarantine with him will have to submit to it or pay a fine ranging from 400 to 1,500 euros. Here the point from Ljubljana

Pfizer antiviral pill possibly available by fall
Pfizer’s investigational antiviral drug, designed to block the Sars-CoV-2 virus, may be available by the end of this year. At least according to the timing published today by The Telegraph, according to which the study divided into three phases, for a total of 145 days, should finish in mid-July. Known as PF-07321332, the drug would be prescribed to patients at the first sign of Covid-19 infection. The antiviral pill prevents the virus from spreading within the body by blocking an enzyme the coronavirus needs to copy itself. The treatment belongs to a class of drugs known as protease inhibitors.

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Miozzo: «Reopening? To be irreversible, controls and sanctions are needed “
“It is desirable that the reopenings of these days are irreversible, but for them to really be, checks and sanctions are needed for those who do not behave correctly: these are the most important and most critical aspects”. Agostino Miozzo, consultant to the Minister of Education in Agorà on Rai3. “The debate on the curfew is purely political, I do not want to pronounce on the subject – he added – But it is certain that once the decisions are taken must be respected, otherwise the system jumps”.

Party with friends, you are fined
It was almost 10pm on Monday 26 April when some residents called the police. The carabinieri, arrived on the spot, found, inside a house, in a garage, in Villa Santina, six people, all twenty-year-old boys, who had organized a party between a game of cards and a toast, with the inevitable musical accompaniment. No one was wearing a mask and they were not respecting safety distances, thus violating the anti-contagion regulations. Here to learn more

Four hundred unvaccinated health workers in the Pordenone area
The average number of vaccinated in Asfo (Western Friuli Health Authority) is 90 percent, with different percentages in the individual categories. There are about 400 operators still without vaccine, but it is a number that also includes those who are not in a position to receive the injection. In the Healthcare Company, activities continue for the application of the April decree which provides for the possibility of moving or suspending personnel who do not get vaccinated for Covid-19. Here the point from the Asfo

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