“Mostly mild cases”
Italy accelerates on vaccination campaign: in 7 days 223 thousand first doses, a jump of over 31% – Super Green Pass effect. And it is a real boom of third doses: 2 million 600 thousand recalls and an increase of over 52% in a week, returning to 500 thousand inoculations per day.
Health Undersecretary Costa reassuressupplying of the stocks of Moderna and Pfizer, confirms the Commissioner for the emergency Son: “No stock problems. In the weeks – he announces – they will arrive another 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine which will be added to the arrivals already planned by the American pharmaceutical company. “With the current availability – he confirms – 25 million people can be vaccinated”.
At the hearing in the Senate, Director Aifa, Nicola Magrini speaks of a theoretical model similar to that of flu vaccination, annual, taken into consideration all the scientific therefore also with respect to refusal of immunity, on which – he says – various studies are underway ”.
From the head of the EMA’s Covid Vaccines Task Force, Nicola Cavaleri the call to vaccinate children between 5 and 11 years old, and on the vaccine of Novovax he anticipates that the OK from the Agency could arrive by the end of the year. Again, he announces the first results on the Omicron variant, with cases – he says – that “they seem to be mostly mild“, While waiting to” collect more evidence to determine the spectrum of severity “.
snapshotor contagions grow, albeit less than yesterday: 12,527 new positives, with a rate that rises to 4%. Yesterday there were 17,959. Ordinary hospitalizations and intensive care are also growing, the latter at 811, 20 more than yesterday. Instead, there are 79 victims in one day, yesterday there were 86.
In Emilia-Romagna 1,656 new positives, 96.6% in home isolation. The healed increase (+519). Eight deaths.