Covid today Italy, Hope: “Delicate hours, new choices for country interest”

On the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in Italy, “these are very delicate hours in which we are evaluating further choices to be made in the interest of the country within this still open battle against the virus”. This was stated by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in a video message sent on the occasion of the national workshop of Aiop (Italian association of private hospitals) on the theme ‘Pnrr: opportunities for the private law component of the NHS and the role of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces’. “There is no doubt – continued the minister – that in the coming days this will still be the priority: to keep the curve under control and avoid the explosion of the contagion that we are seeing in many other European countries”. Containing the new wave of Covid-19 is an “essential, fundamental effort – he highlighted – which sees us particularly committed to the vaccination campaign”. Today, he continued, “we exceed 87% of Italians over 12 who have taken the first dose” of the Covid-19 vaccine: “A very very relevant data, which” however “must not be considered a point of view. arrival, but one more stage. “Each additional vaccination means having a stronger shield and being able to better face the next few weeks”, in “this phase of Covid management which is still full of challenges and pitfalls”, he specified.