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The first 250 thousand doses of AstraZeneca arrive in Italy On the vaccine front, on the other hand, while Phase One on health care and over 80s is still underway with Pfizer BioNtech and Moderna, 249,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The serum will be administered to under 55s The serum of the Anglo-Swedish company gives an immune coverage against the virus of 60%, for this reason it will be administered, starting from next week, to citizens aged between 18 and 55 who belong to the categories most at risk. such as school staff, essential service workers (such as transport), law enforcement and the military, people living in communities and prisoners.
Italy is now also looking at other vaccines Given the delays of pharmaceutical companies with respect to the promised doses, Italy is now also looking at other vaccines, such as the Russian Sputnik, for which contacts with the European Medicines Agency are underway. For Reithera, which says it is ready to produce 100 million doses a year, making Italy autonomous, it will be necessary to wait no less than six months. Meanwhile, from China, there is the first authorization for a more extensive use, in emergency, of the Sinovac vaccine, which can now be administered in the People’s Republic also to other population groups, as well as to high-risk and priority groups already authorized. .
Squares in Rome, Venice and Naples closed for nightlife And with most of the Regions in the yellow zone, the restaurants are full. Thanks to the sun and the mild climate, many went out to eat. A ritual expected by almost 7 out of 10 people, according to Coldiretti. The police intervenes in the nightlife areas against gatherings, in Rome but also in Venice and Naples. The councilor for health of Lazio D’Amato launches “an appeal to respect the spacing and use of the mask, otherwise we will be forced again to apply restrictive measures”.
The whole province of Perugia in the red zone for 14 days While Sardinia is preparing to move into the yellow zone, the whole province of Perugia and six small towns in the Ternano area will be in the red zone from Monday. This was foreseen by an order by the president of the Umbria Region, Donatella Tesei, who illustrated the provision to the mayors in a long meeting that ended in the evening. Total closure of nurseries and nurseries is also expected. The provisions will be valid for two weeks.
The rest of the Umbria Region in the orange band The rest of the Umbria Region is instead in the orange band. In Umbria, 18 cases of the English variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus and 12 of the Brazilian one have been identified. The Brazilian variant occurs mainly in hospitals, while the English one is found mainly in the territory, in particular in the area between Bastia Umbra, Perugino and Trasimeno. The Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Puglia and Sicily will also remain in the orange band.
Abruzzo remains yellow but with red areas and Dad Although with a contagion index at the limit of the red zone (0.99 Rt), Abruzzo remains yellow for another week, but with three municipalities in isolation and a peak of infections in the metropolitan area of Pescara. San Giovanni Teatino and Atessa, in the province of Chieti and Tocco da Casauria in the province of Pescara, remain in the red band. Not only that, the president of the Abruzzo Region, Marco Marsilio, who is in preventive and voluntary isolation because two of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, has ordered, by ordinance, remote teaching, starting from Monday and until February 21, in upper secondary schools.
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