Updates on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday 21 February
A circular from the Ministry of Health sets the fourth dose for severely immunosuppressed patients at 120 days from the booster. Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Marche and Abruzzo are back in the yellow zone from today. The director of Aifa Nicola Magrini clarified that it is consistent to maintain the vaccine obligation for the over 50s: Depending on the future variants, it will be evaluated whether to carry out another mass vaccination campaign. The decline in hospitalizations of Covid patients in ordinary wards (-103) and in intensive care (-19) continues in our country. There are 42,081 new cases, 141 victims. The positivity rate is 11.3%.
8.06 – Chrysants: Less risky to reopen Italy today than in the summer
Keeping the green certificate today is a purely political and non-health decision, justified by the government’s determination to keep the line all the way, by the initial shock of the Bergamo coffins and by not wanting to give the feeling that everything is over, but not by the curve of the pandemic. What Free
Andrea Crisantiadding that now all those who could have been vaccinated have done so and the remaining 5-10% cannot be persuaded and I do not think that a democratic country can marginalize 10% of the population for long.
As for the unvaccinated over 50s, who cannot work today, the restrictions make no sense now that the virus is becoming endemic. Better to reopen now than in six months, because this favors the process that leads the virus to become endemic.
8 am – Remuzzi: We scientists also have faults. The best day? That of vaccination
a remorse that will carry me inside forever. The scientific community to which I belong has a huge responsibility in the disaster of these two years. When relatives of victims and people affected by the virus ask to identify those responsible for what went wrong, well, we are there too. Cos Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute in an interview with Corriere della Sera
. On what he should have done, he added: Within a maximum of 72 hours we would have had to give life to a mobilization, warn the authorities, make our voices heard, talk to individual researchers. Instead we wasted time, we wasted at least those four weeks that were then fatal to my Bergamo.
7.27 am – Australia reopens its borders after two years
L’Australia has reopened its international borders for the first time in two years. Canberra had imposed severe restrictions in March 2020 to contain the spread of the pandemic, for example by closing its borders to international visitors. Since the end of last year, Australian citizens and a few others have been allowed to travel to the country, but most foreign visitors have had to wait. Australian law states that those who have received two doses of the vaccine do not have to comply with a quarantine period, while those who are not vaccinated will have to self-isolate for 14 days at their own expense.
7.14 – THE POINT ON VACCINES IN ITALY
I’m 133,199,390 doses of the anti-Covid vaccine administered in Italy, 98.8% of the total of those delivered (134,878,907). what emerges from the report of the extraordinary commissioner for the health emergency updated at 06.18 today. In particular, 36,897,193 additional / booster doses were administered to 84.47% of the over 12 population. 49,240,310 people (91.17%) received at least one dose, while they completed the cycle. in 48,056,429 (88.98%). In audience 5-11 yearsthe total of those who received at least one dose of 1,342,603 (36.72%), while the total of those who completed the vaccination cycle of 1,031,914 (28.22%).
February 21, 2022 (change February 21, 2022 | 08:40)
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