There are 22,527 new Covid cases registered in Italy in the last 24 hours, against 9,429 yesterday and above all 18,255 last Saturday, even if the comparison is distorted by the fact that yesterday was a post-holiday. In fact, the swabs processed are today in sharp increase, 188,996 (yesterday 70,689) with the positivity rate falling from 13.3% to 11.9%. The deaths are 47 (yesterday 40). The total casualties since the beginning of the pandemic thus rise to 166,922. Intensive therapies are 7 fewer (yesterday -1) with 17 daily admissions, and there are 218 in all. In the ordinary wards, on the other hand, there are 202 fewer patients (yesterday +55), for a total of 4,442. This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
The ISS: with booster 87% efficacy against severe disease
The efficacy of the vaccine in the Omicron prevalence period (starting from January 3, 2022), in preventing cases of severe disease “is equal to 70% in vaccinated with a full course of less than 90 days, 68% in vaccinated with a full course by 91 and 120 days, and 71% in the vaccinated who have completed the vaccination cycle for more than 120 days and equal to 87% in the subjects vaccinated with an additional dose / booster “. The Higher Institute of Health notes this in its extended report published today.
Covid: no-vax death rate up to 6 times higher
The mortality rate of people not vaccinated against Covid is about six times higher than those who also received the booster dose: this is what emerges from the extended weekly report of the Higher Institute of Health.
“The age-standardized mortality rate, relative to the population aged 12 years, in the period 8/04 / 2022-8 / 05/2022, for the unvaccinated (25 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) – reads the report – is about four times higher than vaccinated with a full 120-day course (6 deaths per 100,000 population) and about six times higher than vaccinated with additional dose / booster (4 deaths per 100,000 population)