(Finance) – They are 21,817 the new Coronavirus positives in Italy, compared to just over 167 thousand tamponsi carried out in the last 24 hours with the positivity rate at 13%.
This is what emerges from the daily bulletin released by the Ministry of Health. I’m 90 deaths, which bring the total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic to 175,595. In terms of hospitalizations, 5,091 patients were hospitalized with symptoms (-336 compared to yesterday), of which 213 in intensive care (-13).
“Our expectation is that tomorrow the European Medicines Agency Ema can give the green light to vaccines adapted against the Omicron variant and then the pronouncement of the Italian Medicines Agency Aifa will follow. We hope to have the availability of new updated vaccines by mid-September “. This was stated by the minister of health, Roberto Speranza, at Radio Capital, inviting “frail subjects and those over 60 to have a second booster of the anti-Covid vaccine”.
As for the opinion of the Superior Health Council on the possible reduction of the quarantine time from seven to five days “is coming so we will decide by the hour. According to scientific evidence, however, if a person is positive it does not matter if there are symptoms, so he must remain in isolation so as not to infect other people “.
Meanwhile, in the world, the number of weekly cases of Covid-19 decreased by 16% during the week of 22 to 28 August 2022 compared to the previous week, with over 4.5 million new cases reported. The number of new weekly deaths also declined, with over 13,500 deaths reported. This is highlighted by the weekly epidemiological update by the World Health Organization (WHO) published today.