Italy tries to return to normality
In Italy, the return to normalfrom Monday new bands of color, but they are 8 deaths in the nearby province of Rimini. “The acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic could end by mid-2022 if 70% of the world’s population were vaccinated”. This was stated by the director general of the World Health Organization Ghebreyesus, on a visit to a vaccine production center in South Africa. WHO is asking rich countries for more aid for about 23 billion in aid, in order to help the poorest nations and therefore put an end to the global health emergency, which has now lasted for two years. Emergency that Italy is trying to leave behind: discos reopen, Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri promises ‘a revision of the Green pass’ by March and anticipates that, probably, he will not renew the state of emergency in April.
There are 67,152 new infections today, down from yesterday’s 75861. Victims are increasing, 334, yesterday there were 325. From Monday new bands of colors: Sicily goes from orange to yellow while Molise changes from a white zone to yellow. The incidence of cases, also counting that one in six Italians has already contracted covid, has halved in three weeks. The employment rate in the medical and intensive care areas, at 26.5% and 13.4% respectively, translates into numbers the slow tendency to resist congestion in healthcare facilities. The one in intensive care is 13.4%: the peak is recorded in the nearby Marche Region and is 23.9%.
In Emilia Romagna, which has 5,371 new cases, we unfortunately have to give you an account 8 deaths only in Rimini: between them two men aged 51 and 54. 451 new cases and 580 healings in the province, which recorded, in line with the national trend, a decline in intensive care: from eleven to nine.