There are 19,749 positive tests for coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health, which bring the total from the beginning of the emergency to 3,101,093.
The victims were 376 (100,479 the total).
Yesterday there were 13,902 infections.
The Covid positivity rate drops from 7.5% yesterday to 5.7% today.
The swabs performed were 345,336, almost double compared to yesterday.
There are 2,756 patients in intensive care for Covid in Italy, 56 more than yesterday in the daily balance between entries and exits.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, the daily admissions to resuscitation are 278 (yesterday they were 231).
In the ordinary wards there are instead 22,393 people, an increase of 562 units compared to yesterday.
Meanwhile, the new vaccine plan, as reported by the governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, should be presented on Thursday at the Conference of the Regions.
The main novelty should be
the green light for the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the 70-79 age group
, who in this way will no longer have to wait for the arrival of the Pfizer and Moderna doses.
"We have recently developed with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the Bruno Kessler Foundation a mathematical model to understand when we can return to a pseudo-normality. If we assume that the vaccine protects against infection and that the protection lasts for at least 2 years, by vaccinating 240,000 people a day we will be able to return to normal in 7-13 months ".
This was explained by Giovanni Rezza, director of prevention of the Ministry of Health, during the hearing in the Senate Hygiene and Health Commission on anti Covid-19 vaccines.
"This can be achieved with a high number of vaccinations and maintaining containment."
"Yesterday - he underlined - there was the first meeting with the Health Commission of the Regions and I hope, within the day after tomorrow, to bring new interim recommendations to the State Regions Conference" on the target groups to whom anti-Covid vaccination should be offered with priority. which could also include caregivers, parents of immunosuppressed children, and community guests.
"As we now have more vaccines available, we need to reformulate recommendations at Interim and we are doing it," he stressed.
The updating of the indications of the categories to be vaccinated, explained Rezza, "will provide for greater flexibility" and also the possibility of extending vaccination "to the figure of the caregiver, in particular I am thinking for example of the parents of immunosuppressed children, who must have a priority in vaccinations. As well as for community guests, such as those for the mentally ill and the handicapped ".
"There cannot be a perfect vaccination plan - concluded Rezza - but what is needed is a very strong acceleration of the vaccination campaign".