Covid Italy, fourth wave risk. “Accelerate them to third dose”

Aim Christmas safely. With the fourth wave of Covid, also arriving in Italy, the Government is working to face a new phase of the emergency in view of the holidays. Yesterday 6,764 new cases were registered in 24 hours and a positive rate of just over 1%. The Rt index also rose, equal to 1.15 in the period 13 October – 26 October. “Accelerate on third doses”, the strategy implemented by Palazzo Chigi, while Ema and Aifa are preparing to approve the new antiviral pills capable of reducing the risk of hospitalization by 89%. Read also Hope: “Forward with third doses and green pass”. “We are also accelerating on the 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 boosters,” said the minister of Greetings Roberto Speranza. The third dose today “is strongly recommended to those over 60 who have completed the vaccination course 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 ranges “. As for the green pass, it is “also a useful tool: our epidemiological framework is also the result of the choices we have made in terms of the Green pass”, he remarked. Speranza also clarified that the third dose of the anti Covid vaccine determines the extension of the Green pass: the twelve months start from the third dose. Son: “We can do the third dose for everyone” ” As for the vaccine doses, we are able to complete the primary course and to proceed with the third doses. We have 9.4 million doses plus the strategic reserve ” said General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, extraordinary commissioner for the coronavirus emergency. ” 110 thousand third doses have been exceeded but the peak – he reported – will arrive between December and February. We are able to absorb the peak with the current organization, even in the face of the rationalization of the hubs ”. “As for the supplies for 2022 I can say that doses have already been optioned to be able to hypothetically make the third dose to all those who have started the cycle. And of those doses there is also a share of Covax, to try to vaccinate the world population. have not yet had even a dose of vaccine. The figure, down compared to the past few weeks, emerges from the weekly report of the commissioner for the covid emergency. 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, 716,544 between 20 and 29, 1,273,411 between 12 and 19. Aifa activates to guarantee antiviral pill “Aifa has already activated for a obtain an adequate amount of the oral Covid-19 antiviral drug molnupiravir, authorized in the UK. This is in order that Italy can also have this weapon at its disposal “, or stated the president of the Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli, coordinator of the Technical-Scientific Committee, in his speech at the press conference at Palazzo Chigi with the commissioner extraordinary for the general emergency Francesco Paolo Figliuolo and with the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.