The infections from Covid are 100 times more than those of a year ago.
There are 107,240 new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday 107,786 were infected.
On the other hand, the victims are 94, up from 72 yesterday.
A total of 378,250 swabs were performed, including antigenic and molecular, with the positivity rate of 28.35, stable compared to yesterday.
343 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 18 more than yesterday.
The daily admissions are 53. The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are 8,552, 332 more than yesterday
"People between 60 and 79 years old and medically vulnerable people of any age should also receive a second booster dose" of the
Covid vaccine if infection rates increase. "
European Medicines Agency
(EMA) vaccine strategy.
The April recommendation for people over 80, he added, "remains valid: they should receive a second booster vaccine."
"Depending on the data we receive - he said - we may be able to move towards a
picture similar to influenza vaccines
, which does not require the presentation of clinical data before the approval of the annual update. experts are underway. "
This was stated by the head of the Ema vaccine strategy, Marco Cavaleri.
"We will need real evidence to understand the impact vaccine updates have on protecting people from contagion and severe disease progression in the fall and winter, and how long it could last," the coverage explained. .
"We are seeing a new wave of Covid19 cases in many countries in the EU as the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants are highly transmissible."
Meanwhile, Western Europe all in dark red
in the new Covid map of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc).
In the ECDC maps, the EU states are assigned colors through an indicator based on the incidence of new cases at 14 days and the adoption of the vaccine in the region.
Only Wallonia (Belgium), parts of Ireland, Slovenia and Croatia are in a lighter red.
The data provided by Germany are insufficient, in the Netherlands and in the Eastern EU countries the test rate is too low to be taken into consideration.
