Lombardy is approaching at a brisk pace towards the so-called “community immunity”, or herd immunity. From the data provided today by the Welfare Directorate of the Region, it emerges that currently the total number of members of the vaccination campaign is 6,929,818 inhabitants. Given that the daily average of bookings in the last seven days is 14,848 people (16,665 only yesterday) to reach 7 million people, therefore 70% of the covered population – equal to the quota commonly set for the achievement of herd immunity – it takes on average still 4.7 days to reach this result for Lombardy. Barring unforeseen circumstances, it will therefore happen between 20 and 21 July.
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In the meantime, as the Vice President and Councilor for Welfare of the Region, Letizia Moratti, writes, “Today there are 4,554,741 citizens who have completed the vaccination cycle, 96% of the members have received at least one dose of vaccine, 65.7% has full coverage. ” In the region, for some time now, at the rate of over 100,000 daily administrations.
Results that bode well, despite the fact that even in Lombardy the infections are on the rise due to the Delta variant. In the last 24 hours, 399 cases of Covid-19 and two deaths have been recorded in the region. Deaths have risen to 33,804 since the start of the pandemic. 34,711 swabs were processed with a positive index of 1.1%. Covid patients in intensive care are 30, 143 hospitalized (+15 in the last 24 hours). In the Lombardy provinces there are: 145 cases in the Milanese area, of which 85 in Milan city, 14 in Bergamo, 20 in Brescia, 18 in Como 28 in Cremona, 8 in Lecco:, 6 in Lodi, 22 in Monza and Brianza, 16 in Pavia, 6 in Sondrio and 48 in Varese.