covid, Italy reaches its peak with about 229 thousand infections in the last 24 hours: in practice the record of the fourth pandemic wave. There are 434 confirmed victims: it was from 14 April 2021 that there were not so many deaths from Covid. The percentage of places occupied by Covid patients in non-critical area wards rises to 30% in Italy and is growing in 8 regions. These are the percentages: Calabria (43%), Friuli (34%), Lazio (29%), Marche (29%). Autonomous Province of Bolzano (20%) and Trento (29%). And, again, Puglia (23%), Valle d'Aosta (57%). Percentage decreasing in Molise (13%) and Umbria (31%).
Contagion, we have reached the peak
According to the epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco “We have reached the peak of the pandemic. We are coming out of it, I really think so, next month this situation will no longer exist. I do not want to make too optimistic forecasts - he added - but I believe that in the spring we will be able to deal with a new situation, with the population largely vaccinated or in contact with the virus ". The Undersecretary of Health is also in full harmony with the expert Pierpaolo Sileri according to which "We have similarly peaked."
We will soon see a decrease in cases which could lead to a new modification of the measures to ease the grip. We must take what we do with measures to reduce the risk of infections not as something fixed and infinite. But as something that can be modulated according to the situation that the virus presents to us. For this - Sileri reiterated - all the rules we are establishing, in a relatively short time, can be changed again ”.
Booster
The main variant of the Covid-19 pandemic is confirmed as Omicron. According to experts, two doses of the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine do not offer sufficient protection against the Omicron variant. Instead, the third dose brings the neutralizing antibodies to levels comparable to those obtained with two doses of vaccine against the original version of the virus. SARS-CoV-2. The confirmation comes from a study conducted by the two companies and published in Science
