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Italians still have to be patient with skiing despite the drop in new Covid infections. Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza signed an ordinance on Saturday postponing the opening of the ski slopes scheduled for January 7-18. The government gave in to pressure from the scientific committee that advises the Ministry of Health on how to deal with the coronavirus epidemic.
The government had passed an anti-Covid ordinance before the Christmas holidays. This provided for the closure of the ski facilities until January 7. Ski facility operators and northern Italian regions are strongly calling for ski facilities to be started.
I return to the traffic light system after the holidays.
After the end of the Christmas holidays on January 6, Italy wants to use the traffic light system again in the fight against the corona virus. This provides for the classification of the regions into three risk zones. In the yellow zones, unlike the other two risk areas, the bars can reopen during the day. It is important to reduce the epidemic curve. “Our goal is to lower the curve to 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, currently there are 150 cases,” the minister said recently.
The number of new infections recorded in Italy almost halved in the 24 hours of Saturday from 22,211 to 11,831. However, numerous late registrations were expected in the coming days. The number of people who died from or with Covid-19 has also decreased. Authorities on Saturday reported 364 more people who died within 24 hours of or with a corona infection. The day before it was 462. This brings the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic in Italy to 74,985. Currently, 22,948 people are being treated in hospitals, although the number of patients in intensive care units has increased there. A total of 551,545 people are in home quarantine in Italy.
Too little staff for mass vaccinations
About 47,000 people have been The vaccination campaign started a week ago. vaccinated. Critics criticize the slowness and accuse the government of failure. Because nAccording to the authorities, the Mediterranean country has almost 470,000 doses of the vaccine from Pfizer and Biontech every week. However, several newspapers on Saturday reported difficulties in obtaining planned vaccines. As “La Repubblica” wrote, there was a lack of vaccinators and hospital staff towards the turn of the year. Many service lists were planned for “routine days” and not for a major campaign. In the country with a population of 60 million, medical personnel themselves must be immunized at the beginning of the campaign.
The newspaper quoted Deputy Health Minister Pierpaolo Sileri as saying that significantly more doses had been injected in Germany. But he still doesn’t want to talk about delay. Sileri hoped that the 469,950 doses of the first weekly schedule could be administered by January 6.
It is notable that there are large differences in vaccination rates between regions: the wealthy Lombardy in the north of the country, where the corona pandemic has hit especially hard, is well below the overall average. Some 80,000 cans had arrived there. By Saturday, shortly before 2 p.m., according to statistics, only about 2,170 (2.7 percent) had been injected.
The Milan newspaper “Corriere delle Sera” noted that the vaccines had arrived earlier than expected. Many hospitals had only planned to start operations on January 4. So far, more than 2.1 million people have been infected with the virus in Italy, according to government figures. (APA / dpa / AFP / Reuters)
