The virus returns to run in France and Germany, Italy third for new cases

THE Covid cases in Europe continue to increase. L’Italy records the highest number of new infections since last February 1st, ranking third in the whole continent: 132,274 new virus positives registered today, July 5th. Worse only for France, which today exceeded the threshold of 200,000 cases a day, and Germany with 147,489 new cases (Source: WorldOmeter, July 4th data). According to the estimates calculated by Reuters in the Covid-19 Tracker
Italy, on the other hand, is second for deaths after Germany, and followed by Russia, France and Spain (the figure obtained by averaging the last 7 days).

For our country it is about first summer since the start of the pandemic in which containment measures have been almost completely eliminated. Taking into account the high transmissibility of the new Omicron variants, the continuous increase in the curve of infections and hospitalizations seems less alarming. We are now much stronger, but Covid e still remains a problem to deal with – commented the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza -. For this reason, we recommend that all people use the mask in risky situations and in situations that can favor contagion. Not only that, second Agenas’ estimates (National Agency for Regional Health Services) the employment of ordinary hospital wards increased by one percentage point in the space of 24 hours, reaching 12% against 2% a year ago.

The Minister of Health himself communicated the worrying surge of new cases in France Francois Braun, according to which the epidemic peak could occur in two or three weeks, equaling that of the beginning of the year when 400 thousand new cases were recorded in one day. The cause of the increase to look for in the new BA4 and BA5 subvariants of the virus. The patients hospitalized with Covid are 16,638, with a thousand new entries every day. The figure relating to daily deaths remains stable, which stands at 45.