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In the last 24 hours in Italy there have been 18,727 new cases of coronavirus infection and 761 deaths from COVID-19.
Currently 31,827 are hospitalized (552 less than yesterday), of which 3,265 in intensive care units (26 less than yesterday) and 28,562 in other services (526 less than yesterday). A total of 190,416 swabs were tested. 9.8 percent of the swabs reported were positive. Yesterday the registered infections were 16,999 and 887 dead.
The region with the most cases was Veneto (3,883). It is followed by Lombardy (2,938), Puglia (1,813), Piedmont (1,553), Campania (1,340), Lazio (1,230) and Emilia-Romagna (1,211).
The provinces with the highest number of cases are Rome (968), Verona (904), Milan (844), Turin (759), Vicenza (740), Bari (667), Padua (613), Naples (592), Treviso (590), Venice (545) and Varese (464).
Today’s main news:
- In the last week in Italy, 122,318 new cases of positivity for coronavirus were registered, 21% less than the previous seven days, and half of those that had been verified in the two worst weeks of the second wave of the pandemic, the centrals of November. New cases are declining for the third week in a row. Here we have explained in detail all the data from the last week.
- Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, during a press conference in Brussels, said that the limits to travel during the holidays can “create an objective problem” and that “it is clear that those who live in a big city and have close relatives have the possibility” . to move. Those from smaller towns may have some difficulties. ‘ Conte added that “if Parliament, assuming full responsibility, wants to introduce exceptions to the smallest municipalities, within a limited kilometer radius, we will return to this point. Parliament is sovereign. But great caution in any exception.
- The 2021-2027 multiannual budget of the European Union – which also contains the so-called Recovery Fund and has a total value of 1,842 million – has been formally approved and, barring surprises, will enter into force on January 1, 2021. The approval will be produced later. Hungary and Poland withdrew the veto they had placed due to the introduction of a new mechanism that links the disbursement of European funds to respect for the rule of law: it was a huge problem, for two states led by semi-authoritarian governments whose economy depends on large part of European funds.
- The two countries were persuaded to approve the budget after the other 25 agreed to sign a declaration of intent in which they explained that the mechanism will be applied without prejudice, that it will be linked exclusively to European funds, and that it will come into force later. a ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU, the court that deals with resolving issues related to European standards, and which will most likely be consulted by one of the two countries concerned or by the European Commission itself. Here we have explained why it is a half defeat for Hungary and Poland.
- According to an estimate made in the Strategic Vaccination Plan, based on Istat data, the people who will receive the vaccine in the first place are 6,416,372, of which 404,037 health and social-health workers, 570,287 subjects among staff and guests of nursing homes and 4,442,048 people over 80 years of age. It is estimated that the people between 60 and 79 years, who will be vaccinated in one of the later phases, are about 13,432,005 people, while the chronic patients are 7,403,578.
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