Covid Italia and Delta variant, new wave spectrum and yellow zone

Covid infections in Europe and in Italy and the cases of the Delta variant are increasing. The new Civil Protection bulletin yesterday recorded 3,127 new cases, with the positivity rate rising to 1.9%, and another 3 deaths. Today 19 July there will be no color change in the all-white map of Italy but the yellow zone spectrum, with the return to more restrictive rules and measures, worries some Regions (Sardinia, Sicily and Veneto at risk, according to the Altems report) and there is waiting for the control room. On the table the situation determined by the diffusion of the Delta variant and the consequent possible extended use of the Green pass, on which the government will express itself. The issue of mandatory green certification for access to public places, such as indoor restaurants, divides politics. “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. “The idea of ​​using the Green pass to be able to participate in social life is chilling, it is the last step towards the realization of an Orwellian society. An unconstitutional madness that Fratelli d’Italia strongly rejects. For us, individual freedom is sacred and inviolable “tweeted in recent days Giorgia Meloni, president of the Brothers of Italy. But for the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, “the green pass must be done, period. To Draghi. We trust the premier and minister Speranza, who have always decided seriously and on the basis of scientific evidence, not on impromptu proposed solutions. only to grab votes. Solutions are needed that combine freedom of movement and the opening of economic activities in safety. But Meloni and Salvini do not dictate them “, said the leader dem in an interview with ‘Repubblica’. Then, interviewed at the Festa dell’Unità, on the vaccination obligation he said: “Frankly, I think the discussion is starting to take hold. I am among those who are in favor. There are already vaccination obligations, we are not inventing something totally new. With everything that has happened in this year and a half, I wonder what we still have to wait. ” While the president of the senators of Forza Italia, Anna Maria Bernini, stressed that the “Green pass is not a bureaucratic obstacle to freedom, if anything it is the key to keeping the door to freedom open, avoiding the fourth wave of Covid”. on which the attention of these hours is focused: new infections, parameters for the color change of the Regions and fears of a new wave. “Most of the” Sars-CoV-2 “cases reported in Italy were identified in the last 14 days in subjects not fully vaccinated (ie who did not receive any vaccine dose, who were vaccinated with the first dose or with the single-dose vaccine within 14 days of the diagnosis itself, ie before the time necessary to develop a complete immune response to the vaccine) “underlined the Higher Institute of Health in its latest updated report on the epidemic. As for the criteria for the zones, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, observed that “in a phase characterized by an important level of vaccination” against Covid-19, “it is reasonable that in the color changes and consequent weight containment measures the hospitalization rate is higher than the other indicators “. Then there is the Delta variant and the risk of a new wave of infections. This variant “is 7 times more contagious than the original Wuhan variant” highlighted Walter Ricciardi, professor of general and applied hygiene at the Catholic University and scientific advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza. “If before you” in the case of positivity “infected a person, now you infect 7. When a Delta variant infected person goes into a closed environment and finds” unprotected “people, he infects them fatally. Today “we must avoid the fourth wave” of Covid, Ricciardi remarked. A fourth wave, continued the expert, “we hope that there is not. But Minister Véran in France has already said, on the basis of the data that has been provided to him, that it is a wave that is presumed to happen, because a in the face of this contagious variant it is clear that cases will increase. Fortunately, what does not increase is hospitalization “having protected many. “But when you give the green light to the virus you cause an explosion of cases, you determine a circulating mass of virus that trains it to become resistant” to the vaccine. “And in this mass – Ricciardi warned – you also have a certain number of unvaccinated or poorly vaccinated people who risk getting sick, and you have the infection of health workers who do not catch the serious disease, but can no longer assist patients. “.