(Finance) – The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranzareiterated the need for a certain “graduality” in the elimination of restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the country. “With the decisions taken yesterday we continue our gradual path – he explained -. The numbers tell us that the pandemic is still ongoing and a prudent approach is needed. We must insist on the vaccination campaign and the use of masks in all the occasions when there is a risk of contagion “.
“Graduality” is the key word also used by the Undersecretary of Health, Andrea Costain describing the Government’s decisions on the use of the mask It is on Green Pass. “The government has chosen graduality: with May 1st the Green pass season is archived, we have foreseen the extension of the use of masks in some situations until June 15. After that, if the framework allows it, we will further loosen, eliminating the obligation in every place and situation “, said Costa to Rai Radio 1 microphones. After 1 May” in the workplace – added Costa – there is no provision forobligation mask, but in some realities there are protocols that will in any case provide for its use “. For example,” in supermarkets, from a regulatory point of view, there is no longer an obligation, but there may be the initials of a large company that, through a protocol shared with employers and trade associations, will continue to provide for the mask. But this is a choice, it is not dictated by an obligation “.
In the meantime I am 58.861 the new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours according to data from the Ministry of Health (yesterday they were 69,204). I am instead 133 the victims against 131 recorded yesterday. THE tampons made are 381,239 (yesterday 441,526). The rate of positivity it is 15.4%, slightly down from 15.7% yesterday. There are 371 i patients hospitalized in intensive care, 11 fewer than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. Daily admissions are 38. The people admitted to the ordinary wards are still below 10,000: they are 9,942, or 134 less than yesterday.