Covid, Aifa: priority for vaccines for over 60s but those who want to get vaccinated can do it

Covid the rate of positivity rises

(Finance) – The Scientific Technical Commission ofAifa approved i vaccines modified against subvariants of Omicron 4 and 5 and reiterated that the population at greatest risk of developing serious disease – for which the booster dose is therefore recommended as a priority – “is represented by subjects with risk factors and by over 60. All other subjects can still get vaccinated with the dose booster on the advice of the doctor or as an individual choice “.

In the opinion of the CTS Aifa, at the moment there are no elements to express a judgement preferential against the different bivalent vaccines available (original strain BA.1 and BA.4-5): “All of them increase the protection against different variants and help to maintain optimal protection against Covid-19. vaccine bivalent BA.1, in fact, has been shown to be able to induce, against the BA.5 variant, an antibody response greater than that of the original vaccine “.

I’m 18,854 the new cases Covid in Italy in the last 24 hours according to data published by the Ministry of Health (yesterday they were 23,161, 17,574 last Wednesday). THE tampons carried out are 171,457 (yesterday 184,211) with a rate of positivity which falls from 12.6% to 11%. THE deaths today there are 69 (yesterday 93), for a total of 176,404 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The therapies intensive they drop by 12 units (yesterday -13) and now there are 151 with 15 admissions of the day; down 149 units (yesterday -121) i hospitalizations ordinaryfor a total of 3,719.

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