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In the 12-29 age group, vaccines are increasing and infections are slowing down

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It is adolescents who have climbed the rankings in the August vaccination campaign, tracing the share of the first doses found to the surveys higher than the recalls (see the vaccines in real time). The administrations in the age group 12-19 years (from Monday 16 August also possible without reservation) are in fact the most numerous after those registered in the category of twenty-year-olds. At the same time, in the last week, there has been a slowdown in the growth of Covid cases in the 10-29 year range, while infections over 40 continue to grow (here all the data and the map). In the extended document of the weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health it is noted in particular that “the incidence in the 50-59 range for the first time since the beginning of May is greater than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants”. With the increase in the median age of the subjects who contracted the infection (32 years).

12-15 years, at least one dose for 34.37%

33.76% of the population in the age group between 12-15 years in Italy received at least the first dose of the vaccine, a figure that rises to 34.37% if the single-dose vaccine is also considered. According to the data contained in the weekly report on the vaccination campaign conducted by the commissioner, out of a total of 2,305,514 people between the ages of 12-15, 298,942 completed the vaccination cycle (12.97%).

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16-19 years, cycle completed by over 40%

Over 40% of young people between 16 and 19 years old in Italy have completed the vaccination cycle. In detail, 845,723, equal to 40.5%, also received the second dose of vaccine while out of a total of 2,322,000 thousand young people, 63.58% received at least one first dose or had the single-dose vaccine. From the calculations of the commissioner structure, the percentage of those who have not received any dose of vaccine is instead equal to 36.42%.

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School, the principals: too much uncertainty about the start

The acceleration in numbers represents a factor of interest especially for the safe resumption of lessons, despite the fact that there are still many knots to be solved. «There is now a week left before the start of the new school year, but confusion and uncertainties about how the recovery will take place reign supreme among both politicians and administrators. The didactic activity will resume on the 13th while the entire school organization, the one that will allow the return to teaching of children even if we still do not have certainty in what way, begins on September 1st and in some cases even today with the exams for the recovery of school debts ». Mario Rusconi, president of the National Association of Principals-Rome, warns that there is still no “adequate” directive on the green pass for schools for which daily checks at the entrance of teachers are unthinkable. “It would be sufficient for the Region to communicate the data of the personnel who do not have the green pass, after sending the names by the schools”.

Doubts about spacing and use of masks

For Cristina Costarelli, president of Anp-Lazio, “even if in our Region the number of vaccinated people seems to be high, so the green pass index should be high, this state of lack of clarity on the behaviors to be followed certainly creates confusion among the staff , families and among the children themselves ». Spacing and the use of masks in the classroom are a further problem. “On the one hand the obligation to wear masks for up to 6/8 hours, on the other the concern for the spread of infections, since in most cases the distancing will not be possible due to the known lack of space with respect to the such as those of competence, the local authorities, did not intervene “. Finally Costarelli recalls that he is also awaiting news “on the staggering of entrance times, after having represented the critical issues that they cause to the prefect of Rome, urging the adaptation of public transport”.

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