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Florence, March 28, 2021 – New cases of Coronavirus registered in Tuscany, today March 28, I am 1,368 in 22,443 tests of which 15,228 molecular swabs and 7,215 rapid tests. The rate of new positives is 6.10% (14.1% on early diagnoses). The number of new cases (they were 1,467) and that of swabs (they were 26,833) is lower than yesterday, while the rate of positives is increasing (it was 5.47%).
Meanwhile, Tuscany lives last Sunday in the orange zone (at least for those areas where the red zone had not yet entered into force) waiting for what was announced. acceleration in the vaccination campaign. Yes, vaccines have been the central topic of the health and political debate in recent days because the region has been in the storm by the many elderly people who have not yet received the serum while other less exposed categories have, starting with lawyers . Controversy over family doctors, controversy over the red zone in which the region slides due to a trivial error in the counting of the data a few hours after the maintenance of the orange zone that had occurred – if not announced – at least given very likely.
In short, a difficult situation but at least quite clear: between now and mid-April it will be hard days, but the light at the end of the tunnel should be clearly visible now. In fact, the week of return to the red zone (at three months) also coincides with the week in which family doctors should receive many more doses of Pfizer to cover the elderly.
Covid Tuscany Newsletter March 27
Tuscany from Monday March 29 is in the red zone
Within the next week, 265 people will be reached across the ASL Toscana Sud Est indicated in this category. HERE THE ARTICLE
Inauguration at the Cisanello hospital (Pisa) HERE THE ARTICLE
“We plan to administer 200,000 first doses to people over 80 years old, out of a total of 320,000 in Tuscany, or more than 60 percent, by Easter. We have full vaccination coverage with the first dose for people over 80 years old by the 25th. of April”.
Giani: “The red microzones were a success”
The President of the Region to journalists HERE THE ARTICLE
The controversy of the mayor of Pistoia HERE THE ARTICLE
The progress of the epidemic
Regarding the evolution of the pandemic in the last 24 hours, another 1,518 cases have been registered, with a positive rate of 6.14%, a figure higher than yesterday. On the other hand, the total number of hospitalizations is decreasing: they are 1,727, 14 less than yesterday, of which 257 in intensive care, 4 more. Unfortunately, there are another 22 deaths. The province of Florence Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours it has 494 more infections and thus exceeds 50,000 cases since the start of the pandemic: specifically, there are 50,335.
Vaccines
Regarding the amount of vaccines the monitoring of the Gimbe foundation on the data of the Ministry of Health updated to March 24, confirms that Tuscany is among the last regions by the number of more than 80 vaccinated against Covid, both for the first and for the second dose: in Overall has received at least one dose of vaccine 23.7% of more than eighty (the national average is 27.4%). 6.1% had both administrations, compared to a national average of 19.1%. And on this front, Giani spoke yesterday of a working group with the Civil protection, starting early next week, to get to where there are problems in the vaccination campaign. Referring again to the vaccination campaign, Giani said that the day before yesterday “we administered 24 thousand doses, a very high figure that shows that when we have vaccines we administer them to the elderly, the extremely fragile and those who are entitled to them based on age , and today I foresee that we can still exceed that number. So, of course, we have to stop when we no longer have it. “
The graphic by CovidStat / Infn:
Open vaccines for those born in 1945
The reserves with the AstraZeneca vaccine are open as of Thursday, March 25, also for citizens born in 1945. Therefore, the age range of those who can vaccinate with the AstraZeneca serum is expanding: in practice those born between 1941 and 1945 (who have not reached 80). The agendas of the Armed Forces and law enforcement, teaching and non-teaching school and university personnel, while they are in service (categories in progress), remain open. The AstraZeneca vaccine can be reserved at prenotavaccino.sanita.toscana.it until the available places are exhausted (each place corresponds to one dose of vaccine). Meanwhile, only yesterday, Wednesday, March 24, 18 thousand total vaccine administrations were carried out in Tuscany, of which almost 13 thousand are related to those over 80, carried out by general practitioners.
Florence, the dentists respond en masse: “Ready to vaccinate, the Region will call us”
In 24 hours, about 200 dentists of the Order of Florence responded positively to the request to give availability to vaccinate against Covid. HERE THE ARTICLE
Vaccines, chaos for the fragile
Problems with the covid vaccine reservation portal. 65,000 frail patients had registered for vaccination, but only 15,000 doses of Moderna were available to citizens. On Tuesday night there was an assault on the portal but only 15 thousand were able to reserve. READ THE ARTICLE
“Vaccini, we will return Tuscany to the national average”
In his communications during the regional council, Commissioner Simone Bezzini stated that “we will from today until easter at least 120 thousand administrations and from Easter we will go to 200 thousand. This should put the Tuscany region back in the national average. As expected important supplies We also plan to carry out important vaccinations in the coming weeks. We also activated the vaccination machine. at home. What in other realities is already in place. There will be corrections, additions and we will find solutions in case we do not reach the assigned objectives ”.
The path that will lead to an Italian vaccine four tappa de pisa. In the coming days, Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for the evaluation of safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of the Italian vaccine for the prevention of Coronavirus promoted by the Italian company Reithera Srl. The study, authorized by Aifa by the National Ethics Committee of the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Rome and by the Ethics Committee of Vast northwest area, will be held at the Center for Clinical Pharmacology for Drug Testing dell’Aoup, within the Department of Medicine and Oncology headed by Professor Mario Petrini, the only Tuscan center of the 26 identified at the national level, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Giovanni gori, principal investigator of the clinical trial.
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