Following the alarm for the diffusion of new Omicron variant of Covid, restrictions increase in all countries and controls are tightened at international airports. In Italy, the Ministry of Health has decided, through a circular, to return to the stricter rules in schools: we return to quarantine for the class after the first positive.
. In our country the
latest bulletin
, relating to Monday 29 November, of 7,975 cases and 65 deaths.
9.04 – School: incidence of cases in school age at 125, above the thresholdL
Weekly incidence still growing in the number of new cases of Sars-CoV-2 infection, in school age, equal to 125 per 100,000 inhabitants in the period 19-25 November, a value far from the optimal value of 50 per 100,000, useful for a correct tracking of cases for which it is considered appropriate to temporarily suspend the “surveillance with testing” program. Thus the circular signed by the Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, and by the Head of the Department for Human, Financial and Instrumental Resources of the Ministry of Education, Jacopo Greco, which establishes Dad even with a single infection.
8.27 am – Modern CEO, vaccines will struggle against Omicron
Moderna CEO Ste’phane Bancel predicts a substantial drop in the effectiveness of current vaccines against Covid’s Omicron variant while it will take months to develop new effective vaccines. I think in no way the effectiveness can be the same as we had with Delta, Bancel said in an interview with the Financial Times website. For Bancel a substantial decline in the efficacy of the old vaccines is foreseeable: I don’t know how long we have to wait for the data. But all the scientists I’ve talked to say ‘it won’t be good’.
November 30, 2021 (change November 30, 2021 | 09:10)
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