The hospital pressure is growing but the antiviral Molnupiravir arrives
At Palazzo Chigi the president Draghi received i ministries of education and health, in addition to the emergency commissioner Son, to define the return to class and the rules to limit the infections in schools. The Regions propose that with more than 4 positivity in the classroom, there is a week of distance learning (dad) and quarantine for all pupils in the class, in addition to the swab. Below this threshold, self-monitoring and mask Ffp2. Meanwhile the third dose of vaccine was administered to 20 million Italians, 65.84%: in Emilia Romagna starting from tomorrow the booking of the booster for those who have completed the primary cycle for 4 months, while the administrations begin on 10 January.
The pressure on hospitals is growing, while in various Regions there is a record of infections, 50 thousand in Lombardy alone, 20 thousand in Piedmont and almost 19 thousand in Tuscany: throughout Italy the increase is over 170 thousand (170,844), with an incidence of 13.9 % by virtue of one million and 200 thousand swabs processed; almost 600 more hospitalizations (+579, +41 intensive care); deaths have also risen significantly, to 259.
In Emilia-Romagna, where the Tourism Councilor Corsini it turned out positive, the first 840 packs of the antiviral pill were delivered Molnupiravir, that inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2. There are 8,773 new cases (incidence of 9.5% on almost 60 thousand swabs); 51 more hospitalizations in the medical area (+4 intensive therapies); 25 years old, of which three in the province of Rimini (2 women aged 83 and 90 and 1 man aged 82), which with almost a thousand infections is the second most affected after Bologna (+919, of which 653 are symptomatic).
And while the Minister of Health French announces contagions close to 300 thousand per day, and in United Kingdom they rear for the first time over 218 thousand, also in Sweden there are 11,500 infections, a record for the country where even the king and the queen are results positive. Over a million in a single day the infections in United States, compared to the Omicron variant: double compared to four days before, quadruple in just over a week.