(Finance) – “One is expected in the coming weeks new wave“of cases Covid “linked to new subvariants from Omicron. The pandemic is not over yet. “The warning comes from the head of the vaccination strategy of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Marco Cavaleri. “Last week – he pointed out – the variant of Omicron BQ1 was identified in at least 5 countries” in Europe and “the ECDC predicts that the variant BQ1 and its sub-variant BQ1.1 will become the dominant strains from mid-November to the beginning. of December “.
“It is not known yet whether it will be more transmissible or will cause one disease more severe than the BA4 and BA5 variants, but what is known is that it has a greater ability to escape the immunity conferred by vaccinationfrom having contracted Covid or from the monoclonal antibodies available “, he added. children“Ema – concluded Cavaleri – recommends vaccinating children with basic diseases to protect them from hospitalization and death”, but “the decision on the vaccination of children lies with the EU member states”.
Finally, the European Medicines Agency announced that the revisions for two vaccines adapted against Covid are still in progress: “for the Sanofi vaccine the possible conclusion is expected in November and for the Hipra vaccine in the coming weeks”.
I’m 35,043 the new cases of COVID-19 registered in the last 24 hours (yesterday 48,714) according to the daily update of the Ministry of Health. The victims are 93 (120 yesterday). The rate of positivity is 16.16% (yesterday it was 16.38%). THE tampons molecular and antigenic performed were 216,735 against 297,268 of the previous day.
The total number of Covid cases detected since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy is 23,443,429, indicating the update of the Ministry of Health. There are 227 patients hospitalized in therapy intensive (yesterday they were 232) in the balance between income and expenses, while the daily admissions were 24. The hospitalized in departments ordinary are 7,019, compared to 7,106 yesterday. The currently positives are 498,269. 22,766,314 have been discharged and healed, while since the beginning of the pandemic there have been 178,846 deaths.