Covid, Hope: “Contagions rise despite vaccinations”

“We must be aware that the pandemic is not over. This is testified by the numbers of other European countries and the world that see infections rise despite the high vaccination rate”. This is what the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza said, speaking with a video message at the meeting ‘Beating cancer is possible. The opportunity for Italy ‘, organized in Rome by the magazine’ Fortune ‘. The minister therefore calls for “maximum attention, maximum caution, maximum prudence”. And to “continue this impressive work, which is the most important weapon we have to end this very difficult season, which is our vaccination campaign”. Read also Fight against Covid “We live very delicate weeks, crucial in the fight against Covid, which has naturally been our priority in this very difficult year and a half” he adds. “We have seen – he added – how with the evolution of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign there has been a very strong reduction both in the number of infected people and in the number of beds, both in the medical area and in intensive care. These are imported numbers. which testify how essential the vaccination campaign was. Italy has exceeded 54 million doses administered and we have a pace that continues to be very high, over 500,000 doses administered every day “. And, he adds, “we must insist on this path”. Half a billion to catch up “The National Health Service must make up for lost time. Because there is no doubt that the battle against Covid has led us to accumulate problems, delays, visits and screening not done. For this reason I wanted that also in last measures were to recover resources “such as” the half billion we had identified to try to speed up the recovery of these interventions, screenings and visits not made. And more will need to be done, because this is an absolute priority “.