Covid today Italy, infections on. Third dose and vaccine 5-11 years: news

Covid-19 infections on the rise in Italy, accelerates on the third dose of the vaccine that could soon be administered even in the 5-11 year range. There are 6,764 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours in our country. Another 51 dead were recorded. New infections were identified on 543,414 swabs, the positivity rate rose to 1.2%. Read also Rt and incidence rise The numbers also indicate a rise in incidence and Rt. According to flow data from the Health Ministry, the weekly incidence of Covid-19 cases nationwide rose to 53 per 100 thousand inhabitants, in the period 29 October – 4 November, compared to 46 per 100,000 inhabitants recorded the previous week (22-28 October). The Rt index in Italy also rose. In the period 13 October – 26 October, the average Rt, calculated on symptomatic Covid-19 cases, was equal to 1.15 (range 0.93 – 1.28), an increase compared to the previous week and above the epidemic threshold. . This is what emerges from the weekly monitoring of the control room on the progress of Covid in Italy, the data of which are reported by the Higher Institute of Health. From the report, the transmissibility index based on cases with hospitalization is stable and above the epidemic threshold (Rt = 1.12 (1.06-1.17) at 26/10/2021 vs Rt ​​= 1.13 (1, 07-1.19) to 19/10/2021).
Covid vaccine, accelerates on third dose “We are also accelerating on third doses” of the anti Covid vaccine “and we think this is the first ground on which to focus all our energies in the coming weeks. We still have to recover with the first doses and accelerate on recalls “, said Health Minister Roberto Speranza. The third dose today “is strongly recommended to those over 60 who have completed the vaccination cycle for 6 months and then to the frail, regardless of age and to all those who have had a single dose of J&J. These are the indications at the moment – he recalled – from next week we will work to expand to further generational brackets “. Covid vaccine, still to be vaccinated over 7.3 million over 12: the report There are over 7.3 million, precisely 7,318,750, the Italians over the age of 12 who do not they still haven’t had a dose of the vaccine yet. The figure, down compared to the past few weeks, emerges from the weekly report of the commissioner for the covid emergency. In the detail of the age groups, 215,356 over 80 not yet vaccinated, 454,048 between 70 and 79 years, 763,873 between 60 and 69, 1,260,752 between 50 and 59, 1,487,727 between 40 and 49, 1,147,039 between 30 and 39 years, 716,544 between 20 and 29, 1,273,411 between 12 and 19 Brusaferro: “Contagions on the rise among under 12 not yet vaccinated” “We are witnessing an increase in Covid-19 infections under 12 years of age, in particularly in the 6-11 age group, while the growth is more contained between 12-15 and 16-19 years and this is also due to the number of vaccinations performed in this population bracket “. This was underlined by the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, in a video message commenting on the weekly report on Covid-19, adding that “the increase in viral circulation characterizes the whole country. It is fed by the younger age groups. , in particular between 30-39 and 40-49 years, who compared to 20-29 year olds have a more limited vaccination coverage “. Covid vaccine age range 5-11: when, opinions on the anti-Covid vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years “we are waiting for a definitive pronouncement from Ema, the hope is that it will arrive in December”, said the Minister of Health, adding that on the subject “the provisions of the Italian Government and AIFA will be subsequent to this pronouncement “of the European Medicines Agency.” The Pfizer vaccine in Italy also for children aged 5 to 11 by Christmas “. Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Health Council and coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee (Cts), announced “Pfizer is a safe vaccine approved in the United States by the Fda and Cdc”, he says to Buongiorno, on Sky Tg24, referring to the green light arrived in America not only by the American drug agency but also by the public health control body. “Children between 5 and 11 must be vaccinated against Covid because” the infection, albeit in rare cases, can be severe and children can end up in hospital, in intensive care, they can develop multisystem inflammatory syndrome and can therefore face complications “. Thus Antonella Viola, immunologist at the University of Padua, to the microphones of ‘A sheep’s day’ on Rai Radio 1. On the anti-Covid vaccine for the 5-11 year old age group “there is no opposition, indeed it must be approved precisely for cover fragile children most at risk, those with pathologies or immunosuppressed. I am perplexed about a mass vaccination of children “, Sara Gandini, director of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the European Institute of Oncology (Ieo) told Adnkronos Health Milan.