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“The contagion curve is now firmly frozen and continues on a downward trend, but unfortunately it has not flattened, it has not disappeared. It would be really difficult to start the largest mass vaccination campaign perhaps in a condition of resurgence of the contagion curve.” , the possible and feared third wave ”. Thus the commissioner Domenico Arcuri at the press conference.
“There will be 202 million doses of the vaccine for Italy, as expected, but not more in 15 months but in 21 months, because Sanofi, which was supposed to give us 40 million doses in the third and fourth quarters of 2021, is delayed and will give them in the second and third quarters of 2022. We confirm, if the authorization processes allow it, a number of doses to vaccinate all Italians who wish between next summer and next autumn.
“If we have a good Christmas (respecting the restrictions, editor’s note) I think we will prevent the resurgence of contagions by questioning the reopening of the school” on January 7th.
“We need one last effort. We must not have a happy Christmas, but a good Christmas, to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. It has never been worth it like this year.”
“In February we plan to start vaccinating people in descending order of frailty, moving down the population curve.” “There will be no queues, there will be an orderly administration with criteria that we will communicate to the Italians in the coming weeks,” he repeated. When the campaign begins to interest the population, it will start from the most fragile people and then move on to the less fragile. At least in the first phase, we will be the ones to call the most vulnerable to get vaccinated. We confirm, if the authorization processes allow it, a number of doses to vaccinate all Italians who wish to do so between next summer and next autumn. If we are going to have a good Christmas (respecting the restrictions, ed.) I think we will prevent the resurgence of infections from putting into question the reopening of the school on January 7th. The Immuni App as performance is among the best in the world, we do not rule out using it also for the vaccination campaign, we still do not know what the connection could be, but we are evaluating it. anti-Covid actions “we received 11,282 requests in 18 hours, which was somewhat higher than our expectations; of these 6,381 are doctors.” Three thousand doctors and 12 thousand nurses is the quota to reach with the hiring “.
Commissioner Arcuri’s press conference
There are 18,236 positive swabs in 24 hours, 683 Covid victims in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. There are 185,320 coronavirus swabs made in the last 24 hours in Italy, about 15,000 less than the almost 200,000 yesterday, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The positivity rate (positive / swab ratio, including repeat and control) is 9.8%, compared to 8.8% yesterday (+ 1%).
There are 2,855 patients in intensive care due to Covid in Italy, 71 units less than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits, according to data from the Ministry of Health. There are 183 daily admissions to resuscitation. People hospitalized with symptoms in ordinary wards are 26,427, 470 units less than yesterday.
“The weekly average of the daily number of deaths from Covid is now equal to 659. It is the same as last April 9, but at that time we maintained the total lockdown for almost a month. This indicates that the only solution to reverse the trend it is a greater tightening of the measures “. Giuseppe Arbia, professor of economic statistics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome, told ANSA: “If the situation does not change and given the current conditions – he warns – in a month we will still have about 500 daily deaths.
