(Finance) – They are 107,240 the new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday 107,786 were infected. The victims instead they are 94, up from 72 yesterday. A total of 378,250 were performed, including antigenic and molecular tampons with the rate of positivity which stood at 28.35%, stable compared to yesterday. 343 patients are hospitalized in therapy intensive, 18 more than yesterday. The daily admissions are 53. The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are 8,552, 332 more than yesterday
Meanwhile Marco CavaleriHead of Vaccine Strategy of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said that “even people between 60 and 79 and medically vulnerable people of any age should receive a second booster dose“of vaccine against Covid six infection rates they increase. “The April recommendation for people over 80, he added,” remains valid: they should receive a second booster vaccine. “
“Depending on the data we receive – he explained – we may be able to move towards a similar picture vaccines for influenza, which does not require presentation of clinical data prior to approval of theannual update. Discussions among experts are ongoing. “” We will need real evidence to understand the impact that vaccine updates have on protecting people from contagion and severe disease evolution in Autumn and in winterand how long the coverage could last, Cavalieri pointed out.
“We are seeing one new wave of Covid19 cases in many countries in the EU since the Omicron BA.4 variants And BA.5 they are highly communicable, “he concluded.