The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has begun evaluating the authorization request for a version of Comirnaty, Pfizer and Biontech's covid vaccine, adapted to the original virus and its Omicron BA.4 / 5 subvariants.
The Agency announces it on Twitter.
In Italy, according to today's bulletin of the Ministry of Health, there are 31,088 new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours, compared to 8,355 yesterday.
The victims are 98, up from 60 yesterday.
The swabs carried out amounted to 208,996.
The rate is 14.9%, up from 13.3% yesterday.
There are 226 patients admitted to intensive care, 3 fewer than yesterday, in the balance between entries and exits, while daily entries are 19. On the other hand, 5,427 hospitalized patients in ordinary wards, 204 fewer in the last twenty-four hours.
The currently positive are 660,241, compared to yesterday 8,523 less.
21,010,197 (+39.512) have been discharged and healed, while the total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic is 21,845,943, while that of deaths is 175,505.