Zaia: “I think Friday’s bulletin will be from the yellow zone”

Veneto is now destined to move into the yellow zone, starting next week. The hospital pressing – the final word belongs to the next monitoring – leads in this direction. The president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, is also aware of this and does not hide the fact that the region “hangs on the employment data of the medical area. I think Friday’s bulletin will be from the yellow zone ». It is a typical acute phase – he says – and soon there is no hint of a trend reversal. “The data tell us that the intensive care occupation rate is 12.8%, the incidence of infections is already a yellow zone. There are data that say that the infection is running, but the incidence on tampons is 4.50% ». Even the data of the last 24 hours mark a constant presence of new infections above 2,000: 2,096 and 10 deaths, a decrease in fictitious cases after the leaps of 4,000 cases daily, because the result of a low number of swabs performed on Sundays, when they are focus only on symptomatic subjects. The total number of infected reaches 554,117 since the beginning of the pandemic and 12,065 that of victims. The current positive figure has jumped up, 50,585 (+1,344) and a total of 1,052 (+25) Covid patients are hospitalized, of which 916 (+22) in the medical area, and 136 (+3) in intensive care. “There are more entries than exits in hospitals” admits Zaia, while the vaccination campaign is progressing almost only thanks to the third doses that are about to exceed one million inoculations. Yesterday 34,766 were practiced, of which 31,912 additional doses / boosters, which now total 977,669. Only 1,721 the first doses, and 1,104 those of the booster of the first vaccination cycle. Overall, 8,293,223 doses have been administered since the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, two other cases of the Omicron variant were discovered by the cytogenetics laboratory of the Angelo hospital in Mestre, sequenced in two swabs belonging to two of Mira’s spouses, who had returned from South Africa a few days ago. Before the Covid positivity was ascertained – informs Ulss 3 Serenissima – the two travelers had been subjected to quarantine, as required for cases of return from South Africa. The two therefore had no contact with anyone. The other front is that of vaccinations for children, in the 5-11 age group, an audience of 300,000 people whose reservations have started today and for which, Zaia explained, “there will be a preferential channel and a dedicated line in vaccination centers, with pediatricians, without waiting. The decision is up to the parents “Finally, the governor also received a reply to the proposal of the union of primary hospitals for the return to the ward of unvaccinated doctors. “To date – he said – it does not seem feasible to me”.