Covid Italy, contagions on the rise: those who risk the yellow zone

Covid returns to strike in Italy with greater force, with the spread of the delta variant among the main causes of the increase in infections, and for some regions we return to talk about the risk of the yellow zone which would entail harsher rules, measures and restrictions than in the current ones right in the tourism season. The expectation is therefore growing for the control room, which should take place at the beginning of next week. The issue of the green pass and the hypothesis of making it mandatory, as already happened in France, also remains on the government table. But on this point there is no shortage of critical voices even within the majority forces. “After a year and a half of closure, we need to leave. It’s not like you can ask for the green pass to go and get the cap at the bar in the morning,” said Matteo Salvini, leader of the League. Read also “The activities have not already suffered enough restrictions in a year and a half? For the government not. After all, it will never lower the shutters for 5 days if there are customers without Green Pass, what problem is there if the manager the local will also have to be the controller. Let us not care who is to blame for living off his work and not the grillini subsidies “, the words of Giorgia Meloni, in opposition to the Brothers of Italy. THE REGIONS AT RISK No region will change in any case color on Monday 19 July, but from the following week the situation could change in the areas most affected in recent weeks. Among the regions most at risk based on the incidence of cases there would be Sardinia, Sicily, Veneto, Lazio and Campania. But for a possible change of color, as assured by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, “the hospitalization rate will weigh more” than the other indicators. “In a phase characterized by an important level of vaccination” against Covid, according to the minister, it is in fact “reasonable that in the changes of color and in the consequent containment measures the hospitalization rate weighs more”. In the meantime, the Civil Protection reported 3,121 new cases and 13 deaths, with a positive rate of 1.3%. There are 162 patients in intensive care, one more than the previous day, with 9 admissions in the last 24 hours. Patients with symptoms are 1,111 (+23). According to the findings of the Higher Institute of Health in the latest report, “most of the cases reported in Italy have been identified in the last 14 days in subjects not fully vaccinated (that is, who have not received any dose of vaccine, who have been vaccinated with the first dose or with the single-dose vaccine within 14 days of diagnosis, ie before the time necessary to develop a complete immune response to the vaccine) “. The graphs of the Italian population tell us that “the percentage of cases among vaccinated is largely lower than the percentage of cases among non-vaccinated. If vaccines were not effective in reducing the risk of infection, there would be no difference in the number of cases among vaccinated. and not vaccinated “, note the authors of the report. As regards the type of affected subjects, notes the ISS,” in the last two weeks, 26.7% of total cases are under the age of 19 “, therefore more than 1 in 4, “62.3% are aged between 20 and 59 and 11% are over 60”.