Covid, Arcuri: ‘The first vaccines in Italy at the end of January’ – Health

11/12/2020 Health, Italy



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We are confident that we will be able to vaccinate the first Italians at the end of January. One million 700 thousand of our citizens ”. The Emergency Commissioner, Domenico Arcuri, said so. “The vaccine will not be available from tomorrow or immediately for everyone” – added Arcuri, for whom “non-uniform measures such as those that have been introduced are needed. There are regions where the first signs of the cooling of the epidemic are felt and others where the situation remains critical and more measures must be taken to help cool the growth of the outbreaks. “On the arrival of vaccines in Italy or” we are sure that we have the objective “of being the first to be vaccinated and in this we await” the plan of the ministry.

There are 37,978 new coronavirus infections in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The victims are 636. The total number of cases identified since the beginning of the epidemic stands at 1,066,401, while deaths are now 43,589. In a single day there was not such a high number of victims since last April 6, even in that case there were 636.

It is still a record for tampons in Italy: there are 234,672 those made on the last day, about 9,000 more than yesterday. The ratio between positives and tests returns to 16.18%, almost 2% more than yesterday. The number of patients admitted to intensive care in Italy increased by 89. There are now 3,170 people in intensive care.

Patients with symptoms in ordinary Covid wards increased by 429 units and are now 29,873. There are 602,011 people in home isolation (+21,178). The positives are currently 635,054 (+21,696), those healed and discharged are 387,758 (+15,645).

Lombardy continues to be the region with the highest increase in new cases in the last 24 hours, which, according to the latest bulletin, are 9,291. They are followed by Piedmont (4,787), Campania (4,065), Veneto (3,564), Lazio (2,686), Emilia Romagna (2,402) and Tuscany (1,932). Of the total of 636 victims in the last 24 hours, only in Lombardy 187 were registered.

Press conference of the Covid Emergency Commissioner, Arcuri- LA DIRETTA

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