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Covid: 1,255 positive, 63 victims

2021-06-18T07:05:24.365Z


Son: 'Review of the vaccine plan? Balanced doses in 11 Regions'. Fedriga: 'Confusion of regulatory bodies on AstraZeneca'. De Luca bans AZ and Johnson under 60. Aifa has approved mixed vaccination for people under 60 who have had a first dose of vaxzevria (ANSA)


There are

1,255 coronavirus test positives in Italy in the last 24 hours

, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 907. There are 63 victims in one day, while yesterday there were 36. There are 212,112 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus always carried out in 24 hours. Yesterday there were 79,524. The positivity rate is 0.6 %%, down from 1.1% yesterday. There are 504 patients hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, with a decrease of 32 compared to yesterday in the daily balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions, according to data from the Ministry of Health, were 26 (yesterday there were 11). The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 3,333, down 132 units compared to yesterday.

"We are rescheduling together with the Regions,

giving support in rebooking and going to balance with strategic reserves. We have balanced with eleven regions to mitigate inconvenience to citizens

". So Commissioner for Emergency Covid, Francesco

Son

spoke on reprogramming of administration in the light of the new provisions on 60 under.

"At the moment there is still no request for new doses from us, but we are studying.

The Plan, however, remains sustainable to date

", explained the Commissioner for Emergency, regarding any requests for additional loads of mRna doses. by Italy. "The Plan is still feasible - he added -. I had taken some leeway in agreement with Draghi. Between now and the end of September, over 54 million and a half doses will arrive. By that date we will be able to cover 80% of the vaccinable audience" . And "since the danger is always around the corner, having a reserve never hurts and therefore they are welcome if additional doses and advances of those in the last quarter arrive".

L

in Campania will start from tomorrow the calls for citizens who made their first dose of vaccine against covid19 with Astrazeneca

.

Those called up under 60 will receive the heterologous dose with Pfizer or Moderna, while those over 60 will have the recall of Astrazeneca.

This is confirmed by sources of the regional presidency.

"

New vaccinated people will not be given Astrazeneca under the age of 60

- said the president of the Campania Region

Vincenzo De Luca

in a note -, with respect to the

Johnson & Johnson

vaccine

the position of the Ministry is not defined in a clear and binding way. Therefore this vaccine

will not be administered under the age of 60

". 

On Sunday, De Luca said that he would not authorize the vaccine mix in the absence of clear indications, adding that he had sent Speranza a "technical note" containing doubts about heterologous vaccination and reiterating the no of his region.

However, in a subsequent letter sent by the ministry to the governor it was specified that

: "The data currently available, deriving in particular from two clinical studies conducted respectively in Spain and England and cited in your note, provide reassuring information regarding efficacy (in terms of good antibody response) and safety (in terms of acceptability of side effects) on the completion of the vaccine cycle, with an mRNA vaccine, in subjects under the age of 60 who have already received a first dose of Vaxzevria vaccine (mixed vaccination cycle) ".

"We will have to lose a few days or weeks because the distribution of vaccines will have to be rescheduled."

Thus the president of the Lombardy Region,

Attilio Fontana

, commented on the delays in the vaccination campaign, linked to the decision to inoculate a different vaccine to those under 60 who had received AstraZeneca in the first dose. "We are still waiting to have more specifications because unfortunately the science in this field is particularly contradictory. There is no unanimous voice, we hope to have it" he added. "There was a general reassurance from General Figliuolo who said that we will try to give an answer to the legitimate request to increase the inoculations of Pfizer and Moderna," added Fontana. "We need more, otherwise there is a risk of having to slow down. Since the vaccination is doing very well as a result, we don't want to slow down," he added. Then again: "We waited for what Aifa said, who made the most reassuring speech, now she will also ask for Ema's intervention to have further guarantees ".

"It is not the Regions that go in no particular order,

I think there has been a lot of confusion on Astrazeneca by the regulatory bodies"

. So the president of the Conference of the Regions

Massimiliano Fedriga, to Rai News 24

. First, says Fedriga, the vaccine was indicated for the under 55s, then for everyone and finally for the over 60s. "This convulsive communication worries me, it risks damaging the campaign. It is important that the scientific community find a unanimous voice, not it is a debate in a scientific journal but a communication that must be made to the population with the utmost clarity and transparency ".

Source: ansa

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