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Covid: 3,099 positive, 44 victims in 24 hours

2021-09-28T17:07:51.202Z


276,221 tests, positive rate 1.1%, +2 intensive care, -62 hospitalizations. The president of the Order of Doctors Fnomceo, Filippo Anelli: 'The third dose to all doctors, everyone is at risk'. He explains it in view of the formalization of the CTS indications on the recall, specifying: 'it may make sense to start from those most exposed such as those who work in Covid departments' (ANSA)


There are 3,099 Covid test positives identified in the last 24 hours

, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 3,525. On the other hand, there were 44 victims in one day (yesterday there were 50). Since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 4,660,314 cases and 130,697 deaths. The discharged and healed are instead 4,427,373, with an increase of 3,385 compared to yesterday, while the currently positive are 102,244, with a decrease of 330 cases in the last 24 hours.

There are 276,221 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy. Yesterday there were 357,491. The positivity rate is 1.1%, a slight increase from yesterday's figure. 483 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, up by 2 compared to yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions, according to data from the Ministry of Health, are 22 (yesterday they were 26). The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 3,435, or 62 less than yesterday.

"

We are all health care workers at risk. Everyone has their own

". It is the president of the

Order of Doctors Fnomceo, Filippo Anelli

, who

explains it,

in view of the formalization of the CTS indications on the recall, asking that the third dose be given to all health personnel even if, he specifies, "he may have a it makes sense to start with those most exposed such as those who work in Covid departments ".

It is difficult to quantify how many doctors may be at risk.

"The opening and closing of the Covid departments depends on the progress of the epidemic" explains Anelli and therefore there is also a variability of the staff involved.

"It is right to ensure the third dose first for immunosuppressed people, RSAs and the elderly, but the third dose guarantees the reduction of the marginal risk to health and medical personnel exposed in the facilities, in contact with patients. It would also help the category to continue working. in serenity ", he said, concluding that in any case the" vaccine has already demonstrated its protective capacity in the field ".

Source: ansa

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