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In the last 24 hours in Italy, there have been 20,709 new cases of coronavirus infection and 684 deaths from COVID-19. Those currently hospitalized are 36,070 (404 less than yesterday), of which 3,616 in intensive care units (47 less than yesterday) and 32,454 in the rest of the departments (357 less than yesterday). A total of 207,143 swabs were tested. The people tested were 95,599. 10 percent of the swabs reported were positive. Yesterday the registered infections were 19,350 and 785 deaths.
The region with the most cases was Lombardy (3,425). They are followed by Veneto (2,782), Campania (1,842), Lazio (1,791), Puglia (1,668), Emilia-Romagna (1,569), Piedmont (1,568) and Sicily (1,483).
The provinces with the highest number of cases are Milan (1,109), Rome (975), Naples (896), Bari (878), Turin (766), Catania (621), Verona (542), Rieti (530), Padua (524) and Vicenza (525).
Today’s main news:
- The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, explained in the Senate Italy’s plan to vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease. Vaccination is expected to begin in January, although the European Union and the FDA have currently approved vaccines in the United States. Food and Drug Administration, a U.S. government agency that regulates food and pharmaceutical products).
- Speranza said the government does not want vaccination to be mandatory, even if the goal is to raise as much awareness as possible about vaccination to achieve sufficient coverage to stop the spread of the coronavirus. According to the minister, Italy has options for more than 202 million doses of vaccines: our country is entitled to 13.46 percent of the doses reserved so far centrally by the European Union. Some reservations refer to vaccines that already exist and are in the authorization process, such as those from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, and others that are still being tested (and will not necessarily be licensed). Here we have recounted everything the minister said in the Senate.
- Wednesday, speaking in webinar “5G Italy and the Recovery Fund”, said the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, that the new Decree of the Prime Minister will be in force as of December 4 and “will certainly go beyond Epiphany.” Boccia explained that “within 15 days all of Italy or most of Italy will be yellow” and that the government is considering “specific restrictions for the holiday period.”
- The European Commission has published guidelines for the management of the coronavirus epidemic during the Christmas and winter periods. In the document, among other suggestions to guarantee physical distancing (such as confirming or introducing a night curfew), EU member countries are invited to “consider extending school holidays” or resort to “an online learning period , in order to introduce a buffer period and prevent the spread of infections in the school. ” The Commission also suggests considering “avoiding religious ceremonies with large gatherings, replacing them with online, television or radio initiatives.”
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