more than 30% of infections due to the English variant, more and more red areas in Italy



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Keep it up the Covid-19 emergency in Italy and in the world. According to data from the last bulletin yesterday, in our country another 13,314 infections were registered in 303,850 swabs, including antigenic and molecular swabs, and 356 deaths from Covid. The Region with the highest number of daily infections is Lombardy, followed by Emilia-Romagna. Here is the detail region by region:

Lombardy: +2,480

Veneto: +1.062

Piedmont: +1.023

Campania: +1,436

Emilia Romagna: +1,588

Lazio: +889

Tuscany: +824

Sicily: +452

Apulia: +823

Liguria: +381

Friuli Venezia Giulia: +241

Walk: +581

Abruzzo: +322

Sardinia: +47

PA Bolzano: +374

Umbria: +262

Calabria: +116

PA Trento: +232

Basilicata: +115

Molise: +27

Aosta Valley: +4

In Italy, local red zones continue to increase because with local north-south measures to prevent the spread of infections, often due to covid variants. The last in chronological order yesterday in Lombardy where the province of Brescia and other neighboring municipalities declared the orange zone, and in Emilia Romagna where 14 municipalities pass to the dark orange zone. In Italy more than 30% of Covid infections are due to the English variant. The data were provided by experts from the Higher Institute of Health and the CTS with Prime Minister Mario Draghi. According to scientists, the variant will predominate throughout the country in mid-March. Problems remain in the vaccination campaign: Astrazeneca halves the supply of covid vaccine scheduled for the EU for the second quarter, while Italy gives the go-ahead to the administration also for 65-year-olds. So far 3.7 million doses administered in Italy and more than 1.3 million people fully vaccinated

In the world, more than 112 million infections and almost 2.5 million deaths from covid. Those most affected remain the US, where, however, more than 65 million doses of the vaccine have been administered. In Israel, however, half the population was vaccinated with at least one dose. The EU is also evaluating emergency authorization to speed up vaccines. It will be one of the proposals that the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will bring to the table of leaders of the extraordinary Council on Thursday and Friday. This was reported by the vice president of the community executive, Maros Sefcovic.



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