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09.28 – Fontana: We are at the top of the plateau, the descent will begin
According to the president of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, the trend of new cases of coronavirus suggests that we have reached the top of the plateau: we are walking through the plains and now the descent will begin. The president said this talking to Mattino5. According to Fontana, today we see the results of the regional ordinance of October 22, while in a few days we will also begin to see the data of the national closure. We have already started a phase of slight but significant improvement. Our Rt dropped substantially, so much so that according to the numbers today we would be in an orange zone, he adds, and then specifies, however, that a bit of caution is better so as not to have to see a restart of the virus, as the measures are more rigorous and you get more results.
18.09 – De Magistris: Naples can be a powder keg
In Naples, the situation from the health point of view has been very serious for a month: hospitals are under pressure and there is no longer follow-up. These are the bitter words of the Mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris to SkyTg24. We are a bit autonomous in the pandemic, the mayor continues: We organized very poorly after the closure. De Magistris also says he is very concerned about the social and economic situation of the city, in his opinion very underestimated by the government: Naples can be a powder keg, or you understand this data or you run the risk of going into very difficult days on a social level and economic.
09.08 – Boccia: A national blockade is no longer possible
A national blockade that can no longer be proposed: the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, declared it during the hearing in the parliamentary committee on regional affairs. In March-April there was nothing: no masks, no fans to adjust intensive care, nothing in the world, Boccia explained.
08.40 am – Chinese CoronaVac experimental vaccine triggers immune reactions
CoronaVac, the experimental Covid-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac of China, triggered rapid immune reactions during clinical trials. However, the level of antibodies produced was lower than that of immunized people contracting the virus. what arises from the results of the preliminary clinical trials (phase 1 and phase 2) presented by the company and published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases after peer review. It remains to be verified, in a phase 3 trial, whether the antibody concentration induced by CoronaVac is sufficient to prevent infection and whether the vaccine also works in the elderly. Preliminary clinical trials were conducted in China in the last months of April and May on 774 healthy volunteers between 18 and 59 years old; phase 3 of experimentation under way in Brazil in collaboration with the Butantan Institute.
08.18 – Registration of new cases in South Korea and Japan
The new cases of Covid-19 registered in South Korea continue to increase: 313 are those identified in the last 24 hours: the highest number since last August. This means that for the fifth consecutive day, more than 200 guardian reports an increase in new cases also in Japan, where a third wave has been assumed for a week. According to the latest health bulletin, published yesterday, there are 1,699 new cases across the country, and 6 of the country’s 47 prefectures have registered record increases. These are Ibaraki, Niigata, Nagano, Kyoto, Hyogo and Oita, as well as Tokyo, Osaka and Hokkaido among the areas with the highest growth rate of infections. The evolution of the contagion curve in the capital is especially worrying: the new cases registered in Tokyo in the last 24 hours have reached a record of 493, the highest figure since August 1 (when the new cases were 472). Local authorities are considering whether to raise the alert level to the fourth, the highest and, therefore, strengthen anti-Covid measures.
08.02 – Berlin prepares to vote a new law for the protection of the population, alarmed by demonstrations by deniers
Today the Bundestag will vote the “law for the protection of the population in a situation of national epidemic”, the third measure of this type since the beginning of the pandemic. This version is the most controversial, as it provides for a marked strengthening of the powers of the federal government. The German police are on high alert for the demonstrations by deniers and opponents of the anti-contagion rules planned today in Berlin. In NoMask chats, messages about the assault on the Bundestag are recurrent, so much so that, according to the newspaper The daily mirror, the Interior Ministry has banned demonstrations near the building, because they would pose a risk to the security of the federal parliament. In the country there have been 17,561 new cases of coronavirus and 305 deaths in the last 24 hours. Updated data from the Robert Koch Institute speak of a total of 833,307 cases since the start of the health emergency and 13,119 victims.
06.47 am – More than 130,000 deaths in India
In India, more than 130,000 people have lost their lives after contracting Covid-19. The Johns Hopkins University data says so. The Asian country is only surpassed by the United States for the number of infections registered since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, 8.9 million in total (more than 11 in the United States). India also ranks third in the world for the number of victims behind the United States (nearly 250,000) and Brazil (over 166,000). Italy ranks sixth but third in fatality, the index that calculates the number of deaths per 100 cases discovered.
November 18, 2020 (change November 18, 2020 | 09:34)
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