(Finance) – They are 6,415 new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours (yesterday 12,317) 33 the dead (yesterday 34). The positivity rate is 11.1%, stable from 11.3% yesterday. The total number of Covid cases detected since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy is 22,054,443. This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
176 patients are hospitalized in intensive care4 less than yesterday, in the balance between income and expenses, while the daily admissions are 6. The hospitalized in ordinary Covid departments they are 3,989, in the last 24 hours, 66 more than yesterday. Currently positive there are 462,669, compared to 9,180 less yesterday. Discharged and healed are 21,415,532 (+15,558) while the total deaths since the beginning of the pandemic is 176,242.
On the vaccine front, the version of the anti Covid serum adapted to the Omicron 4-5 variants approved by the EMA – as explained to Rainews 24 general director of Aifa Nicola Magrini – can be administered in Italy “in 2-3 weeks”. “It was approved with the same criteria on the basis of which it was approved in the United States, that is – he continues Magrini – only with animal data and which means that a new approval technique has been standardized as for influenza vaccination. But the timing remains fundamental – concludes the director of the drug agency – that is, it is necessary to vaccinate with the vaccine that is currently available “.