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ROME. An ugly increase in coronavirus infections, while the 95 minutes of the Scientific Technical Committee reveal “the prohibition to disclose the numbers to the press” and the indication “to workers not to wear masks.”
The alarm of a second wave comes from yesterday’s bulletin that registers 1,733 new cases (on Thursday there were 1,397). This is a record: there hasn’t been a similar result since May 2. There was also a buffer boom that yesterday exceeded the 113,000 threshold (+ 21,000 compared to Thursday), for a total of 9,034. 743. The cured also increased, 537 against 289 Thursday. The total number of cases is now 274,644 infected. A total of 35,518 people died.
A negative trend that has matured over time as attested by the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Health that in the weekly report August 24-30 highlight a “transition that is currently progressively worsened with an increase in five consecutive weeks.”
Nightlife continues to be the main vehicle for infection. The ISS report highlights an increase in cases in 13 Regions and a “progressive worsening, with generalized transmission of the virus throughout the national territory that causes outbreaks, even of considerable size and often associated with recreational activities that involve meetings. “But the general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Giovanni Rezza observes that” the hospital burden is increasing slightly and above all we do not see congestion in intensive care. After all, the average age is around 30 “.
There are two proposals presented by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, at the G20 table: «The use of rapid antigenic tests at airports in travelers in transit, entry and exit. And the acceleration for the purchase of all competitive vaccines developed with different technologies.
On the front of vaccines, the Russian vaccine, which should be approved in September, develops an immune response “without relevant collateral events”: writes the medical journal Lancet, citing a study by Russian researchers. However, scientists note that more studies are needed to show that the vaccine, called Sputnik V, is safe and effective.
Meanwhile, the first case of Covid has occurred among students in a Roman school. A child enrolled with Marymount International tested positive for coronavirus. 60 people were quarantined at home, among teachers and classmates. First case of contagion after the summer holidays also in the Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan: a magistrate of the General Prosecutor’s Office fell ill, so the anti-Covid procedure was immediately applied.
Meanwhile, the details of the operating machine emerge from the reading of the 95 minutes of the CTS, which in the first place show the existence of a plan to manage the epidemic already in February but of which the public did not want to be informed. In report number 23 of March 10, the desire to obtain a criminal shield is discovered “a legal norm that safeguards the work of committee members in the exercise of their functions in conditions of extreme urgency and technical-scientific uncertainty with that are required to operate, also for the technical opinions that are requested ”.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, for his part, thinks of the social tensions and economic damage that, in Act 47 of April 7, “informs the CTS to urgently consider the gradual relaxation of measures to contain contagion since the Prolonged restrictive measures still cannot be supported. ” long for the population. “The” Reserved “seal is engraved on the minutes and even today, despite the documents having been declassified, they are full of omissions and obscured parts.
Finally, confirming the inconsistencies that accompanied the anti-Covid measures, there is also one about the use of masks in the workplace. In fact, the report 26 of March 13 indicates “that there is no evidence to indiscriminately recommend that workers use surgical masks to protection against Sars-Cov-2 “.
