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One in 60 Italians had COVID-19, a percentage that means 1,066,401 people in Italy have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 to date, a “huge” number, according to the government’s emergency commissioner. from Rome, Domenico Arcuri, transmits EFE.
Italy has seen 636 coronavirus-related deaths, the blackest since April, and 37,978 new infections in the last 24 hours.
Despite these data, Arcuri pointed out that, apparently, “the contagion curve seems to be finally beginning to peak,” but that patience is needed.
Regarding anti-epidemic measures, Arcuri stressed that “the virus has spread throughout Italy, but Italy is not all the same. That is why we need differentiations, non-uniform measures, such as those that have been introduced“.
Arcuri also revealed that the first doses of vaccine could be administered from the end of next January.
“We will start in a first phase with the vaccination of 1.7 million citizens. We establish the categories to which we will administer the first doses. People who work in hospitals will be among the first to receive the vaccine, and then the elderly who are more fragile, “he explained.
A virologist at the University of Milan, Fabrizio Pregliasco, warned in an interview published this Friday by the newspaper Il Giornale, that with the arrival of Christmas there is a risk that politicians will be tempted to ignore the situation (epidemiological – no) , so as it happened in the summer to reactivate the economy ”and he warned that“ this should not happen.
It is important that the country prepare “for the third wave of COVID-19 that will arrive in February,” Pregliasco warned.
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