Tuscany coronavirus, 1021 new cases. The positivity index goes back / LIVE – Chronicle



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Florence, March 29, 2021 – There are 1021 new covid cases registered in Tuscany on Monday, March 29. The positivity rate in the first swabs exceeds 18%. Like every Monday, the number of tampons is lower and, as almost always happens, there is also a slight decrease in new cases, which on Sunday, March 28, exceeded 1,300. Covid Toscana newsletter, the first data

Vaccini, “For those who cannot see it is impossible to reserve, they need another method”

The alarm of the Union of the Blind, ready to collaborate with the Tuscany Region to resolve the situation Read the article

Vaccini, Tuscany tries the sprint

Doses of vaccine against COVID-19 administered in Tuscany, of which more than 150 thousand are more than 80 and more than 23 thousand thousand people with high frailty. This was announced by the Region, that today in the morning it will open the possibility of booking as booking. In fact, in the Tuscany Region portal for the online reservation of the anticovid vaccine (https: //prenotavaccino.sanita. Toscana.it/) within the four categories that can currently access vaccination (extremely vulnerable and severely disabled, people over 80, school and police personnel) will appear Red button ” Reserve ”, available for those people who, despite falling into one of the four categories, have found the availability of places exhausted and are candidates to be included in the reserve list at the vaccination point closest to their address. This new feature will obviously be available when new vaccine supplies arrive in the Tuscany region. The availability to be part of the reservations does not give the right to vaccination, nor does it exclude the possibility of reserving on the portal: if a new reservation is successful, the person automatically leaves the reservation list.




And an acceleration in the vaccination plan is the only hope to get out of the coronavirus nightmare as soon as possible: in fact, infections are very high in Tuscany. yesterday the new cases had been 1,368 in 22,443 tests of which 15,228 molecular swabs and 7,215 rapid tests. The rate of new positives was 6.10% (14.1% on early diagnoses). And hospitals are definitely under pressure: we are well above the 1,700 hospitalized for Covid in Tuscany, more than the peak of the first wave but still below the peak of the second (it reached 2,128 on November 23) while the intensive care is very close. the peaks of 297-298 reached in the first two waves (yesterday we were at 264, as seen in the graph of the CovidStat group of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics):

Full newsletter March 28

Tuscany from Monday March 29 is in the red zone

Giani at the Pistoia vaccination center (video)

News on the Tuscany Region portal for online booking of the covid vaccine (https: // reservavaccino.sanita.toscana.it/). As announced during the last press conference, President Eugenio Giani asked the digital health and innovation sector to develop a simple mechanism in the reservation portal for citizens and effective for all operators of the more than 150 points Tuscan vaccination agencies to transparently manage the so-called “reserves”. HERE THE ARTICLE




«The vaccination campaign in Tuscany continues unabated even today. In the next week, if providers stick to their deliveries, we will administer 160,000 more vaccines. All 80,000 Pfizer for people over 80, 35,000 Moderna for extremely vulnerable people and AstraZeneca for people under 79 ”. The president of the Region Eugenio Giani writes on Facebook.

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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