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Italy is still the orange zone. From December 28 to 30, as required by the Christmas decree, the medium risk range rules apply in all regions. All stores are open, even those inside shopping centers. On the other hand, bars and restaurants are closed to the public (they can only deliver home delivery and take away). You can leave your home, but only within your own municipality. From December 31 you will go back to the red zone.
Coronavirus, because the New Year is more dangerous than Christmas for infections
What do the numbers say about the epidemic in Italy in this delicate phase? The numbers of the contagion fall, but the small number of tests does not allow to obtain very reliable indications. In the past two days, the number of people hospitalized for coronavirus symptoms has increased again. The good news is the decline in deaths. We must not lower our guard because, as experts and scientists explain, the risk of a third wave is just around the corner.
And the New Year “runs the risk of being even more dangerous than Christmas.” So on Twitter Giacomo Gorini, an Italian immunologist working at the Jenner Institute of the University of Oxford, who is experimenting with the covid vaccine developed with Pomezia’s Irbm and produced by AstraZeneca. “At Christmas we met people who until then had followed their usual routine. On New Year’s Eve – warns Gorini, a student of Roberto Burioni – the people they met mingled with family and friends 6 days before. Attention”.
The New Year is likely to be even more dangerous than Christmas. At Christmas we met people who until then had followed their usual routine. On New Year’s Eve, the people they met mingled with family and friends six days earlier. Caution.
– Giacomo Gorini (@GiacomoGorini) December 29, 2020
Vacation laxity and the real risk of a third wave
The Virologist of the State University of Milan Fabrizio Pregliasco took stock of the Covid-19 situation today in Italy, while it is expected that the new doses of vaccines can continue on the path of immunization: “On the one hand, the blockade is showing the best it can do in the way that was achieved so far. We should make it more rigorous to achieve more than this. If you add that bit of laxity that may have been in the parties we are experiencing, everything runs the risk of materializing shortly in a third wave, or rather a wave of resurgence of the epidemic “.
Some signs, some warning lights, are already there, Pregliasco highlights inAdnkronos Health. “A third wave is really possible – he reiterates -. On the hospitalization front we see a setback in the improvement that we have been seeing in recent days. I also see it in my hospital, the number remains quite stable, the balance of income / expenses It does not move much, it ensures that you stay at the same level, firm. And you have to be very attentive to these signs. That is why I think it is important to implement the vaccination campaign as quickly as possible. You cannot continue for long with locks “.
The AstraZeneca vaccine won’t arrive until January
And while discussing theobligation to be vaccinated Against coronavirus, there is bad news: it is unlikely that EMA will be able to give the green light to the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine in January. This was revealed by the Deputy Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency, Noel Wathion, in an interview with the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. “They have not yet applied,” he added, stressing that “we need more data on the quality of the vaccine” developed by the British university on which many of the hopes of Europe that ordered the largest amount are based. In recent days, AstraZeneca had ensured that the effectiveness of its covid vaccine is equal to that of the two sera already approved by the US FDA, that of Pfizer and Moderna.
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