There are 20,499 positive tests for coronavirus recorded in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday the positives were 19,886.
The victims are instead 253, down compared to 308 yesterday, 325,404 tests (molecular and antigenic) carried out in the last 24 hours, down from 353,704 yesterday.
The positivity rate rises to 6.3% (+ 0.7%).
These are the figures from the Ministry of Health.
2,194 patients admitted to intensive care in Italy, with an increase of 26 units compared to yesterday.
188 people were admitted to resuscitation per day. 18,292 people are hospitalized in ordinary wards, 35 more than yesterday.
Meanwhile, the doses of anti-covid vaccine administered in the country have reached 4 million (3,998,727).
This is what the Ministry of Health website reports, with 1,370,373 people vaccinated with a double dose.
Currently there are 5,830,660 doses distributed to the regions, which have already used 68.6%: 4,537,260 are from Pfizer / BioNTech, 244,600 from Moderna, 1,048,800 from AstraZeneca.
As for the categories, 2,292,040 doses went to health and social health workers, 690,708 to non-health personnel, 389,127 to RSA guests, 489,475 to over 80s, 50,993 to the Armed Forces, 86,384 to school staff.
THE PRESS CONFERENCE ON ISS-MINISTRY MONITORING
: "
When it comes to school closures it is always painful. But where there are outbreaks or the presence of variants it is clear that this painful decision is absolutely to be considered
. We must be pragmatic".
These are the words of the Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Giovanni Rezza, in a passage from the press conference on the analysis of the data of the # Covid19 Regional Monitoring of the Control Room.
The CEO also spoke on the issue of the number of vaccine doses to be administered to proceed with the vaccination campaign: "There are studies with different data on the use of one or two doses - he said -. The optimal strategy is to use the vaccine according to the data that come from clinical trials, that is with the double dose. The rationale of vaccinating with a single dose is to be able to cover a greater amount of population in a short time. I would say that
as long as there is the possibility of having a double dose it is the best thing
. But taking different options into account in a pragmatic way is entirely legitimate ".
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There is a lowering of the average age among infections
- said Rezza - it could be a fact linked to the diffusion of variants in schools".
"When vaccinated, the effect is not immediate, there is a tendency to relaxation", added Rezza, underlining that there is a decline in infections over the age of 80 which "could be the (positive) effect of the campaign. vaccination ".
"There is a marked decrease in the incidence in assisted health residences".
"In Italy there are areas and regions with very high incidence, such as in Trentino, Molise and Abruzzo, due to the presence of the English variant. Also in Umbria, due to the presence of the English and Brazilian variants.
We must make a great effort to contain the outbreaks
".
"When the interventions are relaxed, the epidemic immediately restarts. We therefore have successive waves that depend precisely on the interventions. This depends on the fact that the population susceptible to infection is still large".
"In the regions, many outbreaks are due to the new variants, I can only express concern for the progress of the epidemic.
We must keep our guard up and where there is a need it is necessary to intervene promptly and hard
".
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The incidence rate is increasing in school age
. We have a decrease in the average age of cases: this may be a first effect of vaccinations on the elderly and subjects in RSA. But
we are also beginning to see outbreaks in schools and this could be a consequence of variants
that infect children more but without severe forms ".
The latter is an element to be taken into account ".
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The Molise region contacted us and expressed its willingness to go to the red zone and in these cases we can only accept this request
".
