(Finance) – They are 6,610 new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours (yesterday 13,197) on the basis of 63,822 antigenic and molecular swabs and 40 deaths, an increase compared to 30 yesterday. The positivity rate is 10.3%, down from 11.8% yesterday. This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
After the approval, last September 1st, by the European Medicines Agency Ema, the green light of theItalian Medicines Agency (Aifa) to the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna anti-Covid vaccines adapted against the Omicron 1 variant of the SarsCoV2 virus.
In view of the autumn season, the first supplies of the new vaccines are expected in Italy to start the new phase of the vaccination campaign. “I believe that the first supplies will arrive around the first ten days of September” he said in recent days health minister Roberto Speranza.
“If you are not vaccinated, you will be offered one of the original vaccines, which will protect you from serious illness, hospitalization and death. If you meet the criteria to be revaccinated, we assume that the EU states are preparing to offer you an adapted vaccine – he explained Marco Cavaleri, head of Vaccines and Covid therapeutic products at Ema -. Our message is to trust the decisions made by your national health authorities. They will adapt better to your needs and take into account all relevant elements. “