Covid: 4.5 million doses in 7 days, record vaccination campaign

"Over 4 and a half million doses of the vaccine have been administered this past week. It is the highest number in just 7 days since the start of the vaccination campaign.

." So on Fb the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.

, 4.5 million in the week of January 10-16, an amount never reached so far. Mostly third doses, even if the first (children 5-11 years included) have risen: after 93 thousand on Saturday, yesterday 62 thousand. The 

, as many as 137 thousand are over 50, and this means that the definition of the obligation has determined some results. There are signs of a slowdown in the epidemic, he adds, but the death curve is steeply rising and will be the last to go down.

"The rate of growth of infections is reducing, like a car braking before arrival. For two weeks, however, the infections will rise again", according to virologist and director Anpas Fabrizio Pregliasco on Rai Radio1, host of Un Giorno da Pecora . In the daily bulletin he adds: "I would divide the data of the infections by giving more information. Eliminating them now means lowering the responsibility and control of individuals". Regarding the masks, Pregliasco observes that "we will keep them for a few years, they will become a bit like sunglasses".

The percentage of places in non-critical area wards occupied by Covid patients rises to 29% in Italy and in the Aosta Valley reaches 69%

. In 24 hours, it grows in 11 other regions: Abruzzo (29%), Basilicata (26%), Calabria (41%), Campania (29%), Emilia Romagna (27%), Lombardy (34%), Marche ( 27%), Piedmont (30%), Puglia (21%), Sardinia (15%), Tuscany (25%). Cala in Umbria (33%) and Veneto (23%). Stable Friuli (29%), Lazio (27%), Liguria (38%), Molise (13%), Pa Bolzano (18%), Pa Trento (25%), Sicily (35%).

. The threshold of 30% is exceeded: Calabria, Liguria, Lombardy, Sicily, Valle d'Aosta. 

Again according to Agenas data, the percentage of intensive care used by Covid patients is stable at 18% in Italy, but 8 regions exceed the 20% threshold

(Abruzzo, Friuli, Lazio, Marche, Trento, Tuscany, Piedmont, Valle d ' Aosta). On a daily level, the rate grows in Puglia (12%) and Sicily (20%). Cala in Campania (12%), Liguria (19%), Lombardy (15%), Marche (24%), Bolzano (17%). Stable in 14 regions: Abruzzo (21%), Basilicata (3%), Calabria (19%), Emilia Romagna (17%), Fvg (23%), Lazio (22%), Molise (5%), Trento (23%), Piedmont (23%), Sardinia (14%), Tuscany (22%), Umbria (14%), Val d'Aosta (24%), Veneto (18%).

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"It is an exponentially growing population - so Antonio Giarratano, president of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Intensive Care and Intensive Care (Siaarti), to ANSA - for which dedicated protocols and spaces are needed which today are not codified, with the result that every the company organizes itself as it sees fit: in some cases they are operated on, in others there are dangerous delays, while posts in the ward destined for critical Covid are occupied. Directions are needed to avoid chaos ".