Covid, squeeze on transport, stop the train if a passenger has symptoms. Contagion alarm, new measures

There are

, according to data from the Ministry of Health, yesterday they were 7,569. On the other hand, there are 44 victims in one day. Yesterday there were 36. There are currently 120,875 Covid positive in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health, 1,645 more in the last 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total cases are 4,865,260, the deaths 132,819. The discharged and healed are 4,611,566, with an increase of 3,510 compared to yesterday.

There are 248,825 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 445,593. The positivity rate is 2% (yesterday it was 1.7%). On the other hand, there are 475 patients in intensive care in Italy, 17 more than yesterday. Daily admissions are 41 (yesterday 29). The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 3,808, or 161 more than yesterday.

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 prescribes the ordinance which also provides that in the case of passengers who have symptoms attributable to Covid on the trains, the Railway Police and the Health Authorities may decide to stop the train to proceed with an intervention . 

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THE EXPERTS - According to experts, the contagion curve increases very rapidly.

The national diagnostic replication index (RDt) on 13 November data "is 1.42 and higher than one in all regions". This indicates

and another 8 above 150 cases per 100,000

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CHRISTMAS - The epidemiological situation is under control in view of Christmas: the Undersecretary of Health, Andrea Costa, said this

in the broadcast '24 Mattino 'on Radio 24. "We must not convey messages of alarm or too much concern: the Italians - he noted - they have largely been vaccinated, the situation is under control in hospitals, we must look to the next few weeks with confidence in the awareness that we are certainly not out of the pandemic yet, we need a great institutional and political unity ". the deputy secretary also intervened on the

"Extending the state of emergency is a decision that we will take close to the deadline. It is clear that I believe that the state of emergency is a useful tool that allows us to manage the situation in a more agile way".

While on the Green pass Costa specified that for now the award criteria do not change.

ALARM OF FEDRIGA, ONE STEP FROM THE YELLOW AREA 

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who have defended themselves and others by participating in the vaccination campaign", according to the president of Friuli Venezia Giulia,

, commenting on the pandemic situation in the region. "We are one step away from the yellow zone and this is given by the number of hospitalizations also in the medical area, very close to 15%. The Fvg will go to the yellow zone, but fortunately this still requires very limited measures. However, the transition to the zone orange would be dramatic for the economy, it is something we cannot and must not allow ". "So it is clear - Fedriga added - that the invitation I continue to do is to get vaccinated, if you have not yet done so, and to take the third dose after six months". The governor then reiterated that "those who have followed the rules are very different from those who, on the other hand, carry fake news around, do not want to participate in the vaccination campaign, tell lies about the vaccine". According to Fedriga, "scientific data now demonstrate theeffectiveness, as they protect us and the hospitals that otherwise risk becoming overcrowded ".

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This was stated by the president of the Gimbe Foundation,

, broadcast 'Italy has awakened' by Radio Cusano Campus. "The objective fact is that we are on the rise in the number of cases, it must be said however - he observed - that this circulation of the virus is not homogeneous throughout the country. In Trieste the numbers are starting to worry, then there are Bolzano and Gorizia". Daily admissions to intensive care are also increasing, but "the hospital situation is basically very calm," he said. For Cartabellotta "the only region that risks seeing yellow in a very short time is Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the other regions the situation is largely under control". The president of the Gimbe Foundation also noted that "as of November 15, 2020 we had 7 regions in the red zone, 9 in the orange zone,so today we have to say thank you to vaccines for being in this situation. It must also be said that there has been a change in the criteria for the colors of the regions: if today we had the same criteria as last year, several regions would already be in the orange zone and others in the red zone ". 

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go beyond the damage due to the increase in Covid cases, but

". From this point of view, "we would not want to get hospitals to start working on the narrow gauge on all the rest of the diseases just yet". So in Agorà, on Rai Tre,

, head of the infectious diseases department at the Sacco hospital in Milan and full professor at the State University. "A few days ago I made the third dose of the Covid vaccine together with the flu. We are in a situation - added Galli - in which we see above all an epidemic of unvaccinated people and its extent, even if it is an announced situation, begins to become worrying because of its extent. " The cases of Covid, "even if they will never be like previous years, could put hospitals in conditions of difficulty in the ability to carry out their duties. This is particularly serious for a citizen who has been responsibly vaccinated for himself and for the collectivity ". I have always been perplexed about the use of pads for the green pass ":I think the management of the green pass cannot hold up with the repetition of the swab, perhaps the role of measuring the presence or absence of antibodies should be re-evaluated. Whoever makes the vaccine should be protected, but if he does not make antibodies it is very likely that he is not ". The fact that one keeps repeating that the measurement of antibodies is useless, he specified," is a legend that sooner or later goes on debunked: I understand that a serological test cannot be done to 60 million Italians but the antibody titre test as a clinical work tool is already used today and necessary for clinical decisions ".but if it does not make antibodies, it is very likely that it is not ". The fact that people keep repeating that the measurement of antibodies is useless, he specified," is a legend that must sooner or later be debunked: I understand that it cannot be done a serological to 60 million Italians but the antibody titre test as a clinical work tool is already used today and necessary for clinical decisions ".but if it does not make antibodies, it is very likely that it is not ". The fact that people keep repeating that the measurement of antibodies is useless, he specified," is a legend that must sooner or later be debunked: I understand that it cannot be done a serological to 60 million Italians but the antibody titre test as a clinical work tool is already used today and necessary for clinical decisions ".

THE THIRD DOSE

- "The third inevitable dose, now the forties will do it and then all the others will have to do it", said the head of the vaccination campaign in Lombardy,

, in his speech at the thanksgiving ceremony of the civil protection volunteers engaged during the pandemic organized by the Region in Milan. "The vaccine is the only weapon we have against Covid, we must use it until the last bullet. We will not stop until we have given the third dose to the last of the Lombards who is entitled to it," added Bertolaso.

"I would think it appropriate that the Government make the third dose of anti-covid vaccine mandatory for health personnel", 

asks the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti interviewed by SkyTg24. "It is clear that it would push vaccination, today we can only do moral suasion but we do not have a tool that forces a doctor, a nurse or a health worker, the broad world of health, to vaccinate with the third dose immediately after the expiry of 6 months ", remarks Toti.

"It is important to book your recall immediately, which will go automatically 180 days after the last dose. Bookings for over 40s (born in 1981 onwards) will start this week".

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"The administration of the Covid vaccine increased by 10% compared to the figure of a week ago, mainly third doses which are 64%, 24% are second doses and first doses at 12%. The recalls are over 325 thousand", adds D'Amato.