Goodbye to the weekly Covid bulletin in the press and on TV. For 4 years he accompanied the lives of Italians dealing with the Covid pandemic. Frightened by the curves, by the numbers of occupied intensive care units and by deaths, by then little-known acronyms such as RT and by the evolution of complex subjects such as epidemiology and virology. But from next week it will no longer be communicated weekly to the media, but only published on the ministry’s website where it has been possible to consult other data on Sars-CoV-2 for some time. Adnkronos Salute learns this.
The first Covid bulletin in Italy was the one read by the then director of the INMI Spallanzani Francesco Vaia, which gave news on the conditions of the Chinese couple hospitalized in the institution and in the following weeks on the many assisted by the IRCCS. Then, with the explosion of the pandemic, every day in the afternoon the Civil Protection – Angelo Borrelli was then head of the structure – set up the press conference in which all the Covid numbers in Italy were illustrated, commented by the experts.
As the months passed and the extent of the impact on the National Health Service progressed, the bulletin was passed on to the Ministry of Health, initially with a weekly conference with the then president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, in pairs with the epidemiologist Gianni Rezza, then Director of Prevention of the ministry, who illustrated the extensive data and answered the journalists’ questions. Over the last 2 years and the easing of Covid, the bulletin has gone from being first a report with a video message from Rezza, and finally a drier note released to the press.
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