Commissioner Arcuri: "822 deaths, tragic data. Vaccine only way. Data confirm choices made"

Domenico Arcuri, Coronavirus Emergency Commissioner

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November 26, 2020 "We are not yet able to defeat the coronavirus, to do so we will need the vaccine and only at the time of vaccination will we be able to turn this sad page", he said at the conference to take stock of the activities for the contrast and the containment of the epidemic the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency, Domenico Arcuri.

He then underlined how sad is the

despite the data are comforting and give confidence to the choices made.

One of them is the ratio between positives and swabs: "Two weeks ago it was 16.2%, one week ago 14.5%, currently it has stabilized at around 12%.

"The Minister of Health will illustrate the salient features of the vaccination campaign to Parliament next week. We hope, and indeed we are certain, that Parliament will understand its complexity", announcing that it will be "the largest mass vaccination campaign that ours. generation of memories ".

Staying on the subject, Arcuri announced the European contract with the Moderna company, which, as stated by the president of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen, will bring the first 80 million doses to the EU in the coming months.

"The best gift is keeping our guard and the level of responsibility up. The primary goal of containing and combating the epidemic to enable us to wait with less anxiety and concern for the start of a vaccination campaign. mass. The virus is still there, we must not repeat the mistakes we made, even in the recent past ".

"Regarding the Covid Hotel, no region has asked our offices to acquire additional locations to strengthen the response capacity. This is because they have already done this on their own in recent months, or they do not believe that this contribution is necessary," he said. Arcuri.

"For us, schools are synonymous with pain. Today we acknowledge that the measures are bringing the desired results, in the coming weeks there will be time to discuss a reopening after Epiphany."

"The end of this emergency is far from us but everything around us offers us some comfort and makes us prepare to grasp some hope. We are preparing for the biggest vaccination campaign, we we are dealing with the organization, administration and storage of vaccines ", he added.

"The Immuni app has increased the number of downloads to over 10 million. It has not yet produced the results, in terms of discovery of the infected, that could be expected," said the commissioner.

"I think the app is a very important tool. But for it to be effective you need a relationship of mutual collaboration between the app and the downloader - he continued -. The message we conveyed was not powerful enough for this to happen. . I'm not sure that downloads correspond to an equal number of the correct functioning of the app ".