Rezza: Situation is not comforting, too many deaths. More transmissible variants, get vaccinated early

2021-02-05T16:58:31.598Z

The situation seems stable at the moment, with 14 thousand new positives today and with a number of deaths that remains high and this represents a real problem. So the situation is not particularly comforting even if the measures taken mean that at least we keep the number of new infections stable. "The epidemiologist Gianni Rezza said at the press conference at the Ministry of Health. Rezza: 'More transmissible variants, do early to vaccinate '- "Variants have greater transmissibility, so we must be quick to vaccinate. It is a race against time trying to cover the population with respect to both the virus that accumulates mutations and can reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine. "This was stated by epidemiologist Gianni Rezza at the press conference at the Ministry of Health, adding that 'in a first phase the vaccine plan is to cover health workers first to make hospitals free from Covid and cover the elderly. After that, the over-80s are vaccinated and many regions have already started. Then you have to go down with age. and go and vaccinate priority categories such as teachers and law enforcement agencies. The plan takes into account the vaccines available and the characteristics of the population '. "In Chieti in Abruzzo the English variant has been identified that has greater transmissibility but fortunately the response to vaccines it is not affected but it is necessary to intervene promptly, also because it seems to be able to infect more the pediatric population. Red zones are being implemented in the affected municipalities ". Brusaferro: 'Very slow curve decrease, stable situation' -" Italy remains stable compared to other European countries in the trend of the epidemic. In the last period in Italy there has been a very slow decrease, therefore essentially a situation of stability ". This was stated by the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, at the press conference on the analysis of the data of the weekly monitoring of the cabin Directed, underlining that "the decrease in employment in intensive care units continues and this is positive. The data of the affected population show us a median age under 50 years, as well as the clinical type of the infected is confirmed: most of it is asymptomatic, for 70% "." There are many regions that touch Rt around 1 and this indicates that there is a stalemate and not a downward curve, and 13 regions have an increasing trend of cases. All this is a warning signal and a potential counter-trend signal that requires great attention in maintaining the mitigation measures also in light of the variants ", concluded