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“The Covid-19 epidemic is in a declining but slowing 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, the circulation of the virus remains strong throughout Europe,” he added.
The goal, Brusaferro explained, is to reach 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in a week. Today we are in 157 cases. The RT, or virus transmission rate, in almost all regions is “less than 1 except one, Veneto, to 1.1. This is an important indicator – explained the president of the ISS – although we have a slight upward trend. This week the RT is at 0.90, last week at 0.86 ».
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 the elderly. They are over 80, ”said Brusaferro.
“We must keep care high and decrease the incidence,” added Gianni Rezza, director general of Prevention at the Ministry of Health. “Intensive care admissions are still above the critical threshold.”
“The reopening of schools is one of the first objectives,” Rezza clarifies later, but “there has always been a lot of caution.” One of the reasons why the restrictive measures were taken “is also to prepare to try to resume face-to-face teaching,” he added.
“It is clear that when schools reopen, internal transmission is not so feared,” he specified, “but the rest are feared because a whole series of people who are not just students and teachers are set in motion. Therefore, special attention should be paid to extracurricular activities and the transportation system. So it is always necessary to evaluate the epidemiological situation at the territorial level ».
On the obverse of the English variant of the coronavirus, he stated: “The estimated increase in contagion of the English variant is +0.4 Rt. There does not appear to be any effect on the efficacy of the vaccine or even on clinical severity.”
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 ».
