Covid: Hope, Rt less than 1, but no danger has escaped – Politics



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“If we look at the dynamics of the RT, or contagion index, in a few weeks it has gone from 1.7 to 1.4 to 1.18 to 1.08 and today the monitoring data points to 0.91. In 5 weeks we passed from a very worrying figure of 1.7 to a figure of 0.91. This does not mean a ‘narrow escape’, but it does mean that the measures have produced effects. ”This was explained by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in the Sole 24 Ore Health Care Summit. “It was the objective of the government and the regions – he added – to go below 1, we finally succeeded but there is still a very difficult game going.”

“The objective is to avoid a new virus outbreak at the beginning of the year” because “at the end of January we plan to start the vaccination campaign: it will be an impressive, extraordinary and unprecedented operation. We need our energies to be directed to this and we cannot get to that moment of difficulty ”.
“We saw, in summer, how little it takes to fall back into a difficult situation,” added Speranza, so “we must prevent the Christmas holidays from getting us into trouble again in a few weeks.”

“In the last 24 hours almost 1,000 deaths, one of the highest figures for this pandemic. Despite this, I still hear controversy.” Chancellor Luigi Di Maio underlined this in a post on his Facebook profile. “I can understand the displeasure of the citizens, of those who perhaps due to the new anti-covid rules will not be able to spend Christmas with the family, but politics cannot. Politics cannot continually make controversy, it cannot criticize everything in an instrumental way”, said. written by Di Maio.

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