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as well in China, Covid is scary again– More than 100 coronavirus infections were recorded per day for the sixth day in a row. To report it are the same Chinese health authorities, who put under indictment an ice cream.
In particular, the Beijing government believes it has detected the Coronavirus in ice cream produced in eastern China, which was later withdrawn from the market. The Daqiaodao food company that produces it, located in Tianjin, near Beijing, has been sealed and all its employees have been cleaned.
While the virus is galloping in the US, the number of cases in many countries is also increasing in Europe and the circulation of viral variants with a potential greater transmission capacity is increasing.
Chaos vaccines, Pfizer and the “one-sided” decision
In Italy, where the epidemic still seems very far from possible optimistic turns, the vaccination plan continues according to the National Plan despite the One-sided supply cuts by giant Pfizer: with 1.12 million our country is today the first in the EU (where on average 1.09 out of 100 people were vaccinated) and the ninth in the world for vaccinated.
As detailed here, Pfizer, maker of the first Covid vaccine developed in collaboration with BioNTech, has reduced the new shipment of vaccines to our country by about 165 thousand doses.
The confirmation came in recent days directly from the press office of the extraordinary commissioner for the Coronavirus emergency, Domenico Arcuri, in a statement in which it was clearly reiterated that the decision of the pharmaceutical multinational was “unilateral” and that Pfizer has “unilaterally redistributed the doses to be delivered to the 293 points of administration in Italy.”
Consequently, “and completely arbitrarily”, today, Monday, January 18, 2021, compared to the 562,770 planned doses, 29% less will be delivered, that is, only 397,800. Calculating 6 for each vial, instead of 5, this is exactly 164,970 less than agreed.
Against the unilateral decision of Pfizer, which anyway He promised that in a week he will give us everything back, the Codacons filed a complaint to 104 prosecutors throughout Italy and will send one to the European Commission for the Defense of Competition for abuse of a dominant position. Meanwhile, there is a suspicion that the Missing doses may end up in Gulf States willing to pay more, hypothesis against which Arcuri cuts short: “I can smile …”.
Vaccine passport hypothesis in the EU
From Brussels comes the ok to vaccination passport to travel. The President of the Council of the EU, Charles Michel, was in favor of introducing a kind of “passport” to travel for free again: it is a very pertinent debate and we will start it at the European Council on January 21, a sensitive issue in many countries but it must be addressed and I think they are also thinking about it outside the EU ”.
Meanwhile, the trend of Covid infections in our country also worsens between January 4 and 10, the last week of the survey by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the Ministry of Health.
The Covid epidemic in Italy on January 15
Despite strong interregional variations, the epidemic remains in a delicate phase and, if rigorous mitigation measures are not maintained, it is very likely that in the coming weeks there will be a new and rapid increase in the number of cases. The impact of the pandemic on care services is also increasing and this translates into an overall increase in risk.
For the time between exposure to Coronavirus and the development of symptoms and between symptoms and subsequent diagnosis and notification, probably many of the cases reported this week contracted the infection in the second half of December coinciding with the Christmas holidays.
For the second consecutive week, an increase in the incidence at the national level is observed in the last 14 days (368.75 per 100 thousand inhabitants vs 313.28, here the data from last week).
As indicated in the latest report, there is a general deterioration in the epidemiological situation in the country. In particular, the high incidence value in Veneto (365.21 per 100,000 inhabitants), the autonomous province of Bolzano (320.82), Emilia Romagna (284.64) and Friuli Venezia Giulia (270.77) is worrying. .
Rt index and situation of the Regions
The national transmission rate Rt is on the rise for the fifth consecutive week and higher 1. In the period from December 23 to January 5, the mean Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was equal to 1.09 (here you will find all the Rt indexes Region by Region).
11 Autonomous Regions / Provinces are now in a high risk classification (compared to 12 last week), 10 in moderate risk (of which 4 in high risk of progression to high risk in the coming weeks) and none at low risk.
Regions with Rt> 1.25 in scenario 3
Two Regions / PPAA have a Rt greater than 1.25 even at the lower limit, therefore compatible with one scenario type 3:
- Autonomous province of Bolzano
- Lombardy
Regions with Rt> 1 in scenario 2
Another 9 have a Point rt greater than 1 at the lower limit, compatible with one typical scenario 2:
- Abruzzo
- Emilia romagna
- Lazio
- Liguria
- Piedmont
- Apulia
- Sicily
- Umbria
- Aosta Valley.
Regions with Rt close to 1 in scenario 1
The other 10 have a Rt compatible with one scenario type 1 but they are all, except one, with a Average RT above 1 or just below:
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Campania
- Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Market
- Molise
- Sardinia
- Tuscany
- Trentino Alto Adige
- Veneto.
The incidence throughout the territory is still far from levels that would allow the complete reestablishment of the identification of cases and tracing of their contacts throughout the national territory.
The health service showed the first signs of criticality when the value at the national level exceeded 50 cases per 100,000 in 7 days and a criticality of the maintenance of services with high incidents. So he could only say relatively calm when we manage to get back below this threshold.
The hospital bed occupancy rate
Regarding the hospital bed occupancy rate, 12 Regions have an occupancy rate in intensive care or medical areas above the critical threshold (compared to 13 the previous week). the intensive care employment rate at the national level it is still above the critical threshold of 30%.
Overall, the number of people admitted to intensive care is increasing slightly from 2,579 to 2,636. The number of people admitted to medical areas also increased slightly, from 23,317 to 23,712.
Finally, reading the ISS report, a slight decrease is observed in the number of cases not attributable to known transmission chains (39,970 vs 40,487 the previous week), an increase in the percentage of cases detected through contact tracing activities (28 , 5% vs 26.8% the previous week) and a slight decrease in the percentage of cases detected through the appearance of symptoms (31.4% vs 32.8% the previous week). Finally, 26.5% of the cases were detected by screening activities and in 13.6% the reason for the diagnostic evaluation was not reported.
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