Omicron was in the Netherlands 7 days earlier than previously thought
As scientists try to interpret available information on the new variant in real time, Dutch health authorities say that the new variant of Covid-19 Omicron was present in the country a week earlier than previously believed. The newspaper De Telegraaf writes it, specifying that checks are underway to see how far it has spread. The National Sequencing Center Rivm said it had found the Omicron variant in two test samples that had already been taken on November 19 and 23.
Vaccini, Italy accelerates: 4.6 million plan by 12/12
Meanwhile, Italy accelerates on the third dose and in general on the vaccination plan, setting new targets for the next few days. General Figliuolo’s facility has announced a 4.6 million vaccine plan to be administered from 1 to 12 December, with an average of about 400,000 inoculations per day. The plan was communicated to the Regions in a circular.
In detail, the total is divided nationally into 400 thousand daily administrations in the period from 1 to 3 December, 350 thousand on 4 December, 300 thousand on 5 December, 450 thousand on 6 and 7 December, 300 thousand on 8 December, 450 thousand on 9 and 10 December, 350 thousand on 11 December and 300 thousand on 12 December.
Dietrofront school: dad and quarantine return with a positive
The sudden increase in infections in the school age group and the fear of the Omicron variant then convinced the Ministry of Health and Education to yield to the request of the Regions and introduce stricter rules for the management of quarantines at school.
A circular signed on 29 November dictates the new rules: if only one positive pupil is found in the class, the quarantine for all classmates is immediately triggered with recourse to distance learning.