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The president of the Higher Council of Health, commenting on the trend of infections in Italy, assures: the health situation “is not comparable to that of March.” Then on the vaccine: “presumably we will have it in the spring of 2021.” says: “It must stay open”
“We are not in a panic or alarm situation, only a third of yesterday’s positives were in symptomatic subjects, while in February and March all were symptomatic.” Saying so is Professor Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Health Council, to ‘In half an hour more’ on Rai3, speaking about the Coronavirus pandemic and the advance of the infection in Italy. “I want to hope that we do not reach the closure on a national scale, we are working on that,” added the expert. While taking the vaccine, he explained: “Presumably we will have it in the spring of 2021, until then we must live together to minimize the impact of the coronavirus on the lives of Italians” (COVID, LIVE UPDATES – SPECIAL). Then a passage also about the school: “It must remain open.”
Locatelli: “The current health situation is not comparable to that of March”
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Locatelli, on the trend of cases in our country, also explained that although it is “undoubted that there has been a strong growth” in the number of infections in recent days, we cannot speak of an exponential growth “of the virus” that affects the European continent “and today” the average age is just over 40 years, while in February and March it was over 65 “. Locatelli then recalled that at the moment” we have 700 people in intensive care “, number” not even comparable to the time of the peak “, last spring. Furthermore, Italy is” a country with one of the lowest positive rates in relation to tampons in Europe “and the current health situation, he reiterated,” is not comparable “to March’s.
“Out of control if there are 600 thousand infections in Italy”
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However, according to the expert, if the number of infected reaches – or should reach – 600 thousand, then we could speak of a pandemic “out of control”. Today there is a line of thought according to which “the system runs the risk of getting out of control when there is around 1% of the infected population, that is, 600,000 people in Italy”. However, it is “a variable that is too influenced by a series of strategies that prevent this scenario, mathematical models are useful but – Locatelli stressed – we must take into account the data that can interfere”.
“The school must remain open, few infections”
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Regarding the issue of schools, according to Locatelli, the institutes must remain open: “Ministers Speranza and Azzolina made an extraordinary effort. Furthermore, the school’s contribution to the spread of the infection was limited.” Instead, he added, “monitoring the meetings by increasing control and surveillance mechanisms is the only way out of them.”
“Upcoming purchase of 19-20 million antigenic swabs”
The group of antigenic swabs “that have been validated in recent days, will allow Commissioner Arcuri to proceed with the purchase that is estimated to be in the order of 19-20 million and that will be carried out very soon”, said the president of the Superior Council of Health and member of the Scientific Technical Committee.
