United States President Joe Biden received his third dose of Pfizer vaccine after federal regulators recommended the booster dose for people over the age of 65, with pre-existing illness, or working in high-risk environments. other risk. “The most important thing we need to do is get more people vaccinated,” the US president said before getting the serum injected, noting that he had no side effects after the second dose.
Jordan: Jaber crossing with Syria reopens tomorrow
From tomorrow Jordan will completely reopen the important Jaber border crossing with Syria. The Jordanian media reported this, framing the measure in the partial relaxation of the restrictions taken due to the covid pandemic. The president of the Union of owners of customs clearance and freight transport companies, Dhaifallah Abu Aqoula – quoted by the Petra agency – said the decision is “an important step” to revive bilateral trade and the tourist movement. “The reopening of Jaber for passengers and goods will also encourage the Gulf countries – he added – to transport their goods on Jordanian trucks”.
Russia, record 852 deaths in one day
Russia records the record of 852 deaths in one day for Covid, confirming a trend that has lasted for days with about 700-800 victims per day. Authorities have reported 21,559 new cases in the past 24 hours, just under 22,236 on Monday.
Covid, Japan revokes the national state of emergency
According to the Minister of Economy Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japan will lift the state of emergency on Thursday, which was declared on July 12, in view of the Olympics and Paralympics. The decision was made after the finding of a drop in infections and deaths. Therefore, the state of emergency for the covid in Tokyo and in other 18 prefectures of the country is ended starting from Thursday. In other areas of Japan, the state of near emergency will end, confirmed the outgoing Premier, Yoshihide Suga, after the green light of the Technical Commission. For the first time since April 4, none of Japan’s 47 prefectures will be in a state of emergency or near-state of emergency. For another month, however, some restrictions will remain in force for restaurants and large-scale events in an attempt to limit the resumption of infections. “Our response to the spread of the virus will now focus on vaccinations and improving the health system. We will also work to find a balance between restrictive measures to combat Covid and the restoration of a normal life for Japanese citizens. The new cases will undoubtedly increase after the lifting of the state of emergency, ”Nishimura said. “We must continue with the necessary measures to prevent a rise” in cases, he said, adding that if the infections increased significantly again, a more limited “quasi-emergency” could be restored. The Japanese government, according to the Kyodo news agency, now plans to loosen the restrictions in stages, with the governors of each prefecture called upon to decide which measures should remain active and which can be suspended.
France, RNA Sanofi vaccine blocked
Testing for the messenger RNA vaccine against Covid-19 has been discontinued. The third phase will not be carried out by Sanofi, which stops before the last step towards commercialization. This was announced by the French pharmaceutical company, which despite the positive results of the phase 1-2 trial of its messenger RNA vaccine, believes that the product will arrive on the market too late, when 12 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been produced. from now to the end of the year. However, he will focus on developing the other serum against the virus.
The situation in Italy
Off to the third dose for over 80s, RSA guests and doctors
The third cycle of the mass vaccination campaign starts today, addressed to elderly people over the age of 80, guests of the Rsa and doctors, nurses and health personnel over 60 or with pathologies.
Bassetti: «Salvini incoherent». And on stadiums: “100% of the capacity only with vaccine“
«There is so much inconsistency in what Salvini says. Because he doesn’t want the Green Pass and he wants 100%. Then it’s not like you can have it all. I say 100%, not with Green Pass, with vaccine ». Matteo Bassetti, director of Infectious Diseases of S. Matteo in Genoa, said this at Agorà on Rai3. On the issue of increasing the capacity for the stadiums, he then stated that “I think we can easily reach over 80% with the masks, and we have not reached it because there is a problem of influx and outflow of people”. The problem, however, he added, is also another «that is that those who manage the stadiums did not understand how things stand. I have seen stadiums open at 50% but with the spectators all tucked into one area, instead they must be distributed equally throughout the space. If you put them all in the stands, all in the separate or in a curve, you are not making a distancing ». The different message, he concludes, “could be the one that comes from the United States: it can be opened to 100% capacity, even indoors, but only for vaccinated people, so no longer a Green Pass that also includes a swab, but exclusively for vaccinated people. “.
Telegram obscures no vax channels, “terms of service violated”
The channels “Enough dictatorship” and “Enough dictatorship chat” have been closed by Telegram for violation of the terms of service. Used to advertise no vax and no green pass positions, they are no longer visible from today. The words “this channel cannot be viewed because it violated Telegram’s terms of service” now appears on the two pages.
Museum reopening with 100% capacity: “Another step towards normality”
«We will welcome this decision, which will bring us another step towards normality. Moreover, already in times of full pandemic, almost a year ago, a study by the Polytechnic University of Berlin had proved that museums, theaters and cinemas are public places with the lowest risk of contagion ». This was stated by the director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Eike Schmidt, after the opinion of the Technical-Scientific Committee on safety for 100% access to museums, recommending to “guarantee the organization of flows to encourage interpersonal distancing at every stage with the exception of cohabiting households “.
Paola D’Agostino, director of the Bargello Museums in Florence, also confidently commented: “It is a good sign, it confirms that all the measures adopted so far – also thanks to the commitment of the museum staff – have brought positive effects, but we await the indications from the Ministry of Culture ».
Epidemiological surveillance compromised due to lack of resources: “Now let’s investigate Italy”
“Now the farce commission of inquiry, or rather that the parliamentarians of Bergamo from Brescia and Lombardy have tried to make it so, will be forced to investigate Italy.” This was declared by the lawyer Consuelo Locati of the We will report, after the report on Direct Presa dedicated to the “modification of the definition of a suspected case covid due to lack of resources” (according to the words of the former Director of Prevention Claudio d’Amario), which would have compromised epidemiological surveillance by causing Covid to spread uncontrolled for at least a month, “as we have been saying for months now”. Then, continues Locati, “from what emerges from the article by the deputy director of La Verità, Francesco Borgonovo, Italy would have also disregarded the requests of the EU on tests for travelers from Wuhan, effectively allowing thousands of potentially infected people but asymptomatic to enter the Italian and therefore European borders. This would explain why the pandemic in Europe broke out in Italy and not in other countries such as Germany or France ”.