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The Covid-19 epidemic in Italy is in a “declining but slowing down phase.” Thus the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro, in a press conference on the analysis of the data of the Regional Surveillance of the Control Room. On the other hand, he adds, the circulation of the virus remains strong throughout Europe.
The goal, says Brusaferro, is to reach 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in a week. Today we are in 157 cases. The RT, that is, the virus transmission index, in almost all regions is “less than 1 except one: Molise. This is an important indicator – continues the president of the ISS – even if we have a slight tendency to Rt is at 0.90 this week, last week it was at 0.86 “.
Among the regions considered “unstable” also Lazio and Lombardy, where RT fluctuates, and Veneto, which has become a case with the number of new positives growing again.
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The identikit of the patients in this phase of the second wave of the pandemic remains stable: “Most of the people hospitalized are men and elderly. They are over 80 years old,” explains Brusaferro.
“We must keep the care high and lower the incidence”, adds Gianni Rezza, general director of Prevention at the Ministry of Health: “Admissions to intensive care are still above the critical threshold.”
Rezza clarified that “the reopening of schools is one of the first objectives”, but “there has always been a lot of caution.” One of the reasons the restrictive measures were taken “is also to prepare to try to resume face-to-face teaching,” he added.
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“It is clear that when the schools reopen the transmission in the interior there is not so much fear – he clarified – but the rest are feared because a whole series of people who are not only students and teachers are put into action. That is why special care must be taken precisely about extracurricular activities and about the transport system. So it is always necessary to evaluate at the territorial level what the epidemiological situation is ”.
And again, on the English variant: “The estimated increase in contagion of the English variant is +0.4 RT. There does not seem to be any effect on the efficacy of the vaccine or on the clinical severity,” explains the director.
Finally, at Christmas: “Protect the elderly, this is the appeal that I feel I can make to the citizens – said Rezza – tonight we will meet for Christmas dinner and tomorrow we will do the same: limiting the number of people is particularly Important, it would seem trivial – he pointed out – but the more the number of aggregations increases, the greater the risk ”.
