Covid today Italy, Rezza: “Situation continues to worsen”

From the weekly monitoring report on Covid-19 in Italy, it appears that “the epidemiological situation in our country is still tending to worsen. The incidence rate is around 125 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. The RT remains stable at 1, 23 “. This was underlined by Giovanni Rezza, Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health. “With regard to the occupancy rate of places in the medical and intensive care areas – he notes – we are respectively 8.1 and 6.2%, therefore below the critical threshold even if we observe – however Rezza warns – a tendency to increase. Given the epidemiological situation – it is the amion – it is good to continue the vaccination campaign with great intensity and above all as regards the booster doses and at the same time it is essential – he concludes – to maintain prudent behavior: social distancing and use of masks “. Rezza then added that “we are following what is happening in the rest of the world, in particular the emergence of this new variant recently identified in South Africa, we are evaluating its characteristics together with other international organizations”.