Domenico Arcuri, Special Commissioner of COVID-19 to the Ministry of Economic Development, is leaving after a meeting on vaccinations in Rome on Thursday, February 25, 2021. Arcuri was boasting after his daily vaccinations were quickly spotted. In the second half of January, this week’s abduction showed a “comfortable rise,” of about 100,000 a day nationally. (Mauro Scrobogna / LaPresse through AP)
The Lombardy region of northern Italy, where the European coronavirus revolution took place last year, called on the national government on Thursday for more vaccines to halt the rise of new COVID-19 cases. which is taxing the health system in the province of Brescia.
The burden of fast-growing cases in the province is contributing to another rise in reported cases across the country: Italy reported another 19,886 confirmed diseases on Thursday, the highest daily number since early in the year. January. Authorities reported a further 308 virus-related deaths, bringing the country’s official tax in the pandemic to just under 97,000.
Brescia, with a population of about 1.2 million, has seen its daily affairs go from the mid-100s in early February to 901 on Wednesday and 973 on Thursday, due to several groups of diseases detected for the British variety. Doctors say the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the main public hospital has recently gone from around 200 to 300.
“We can’t talk about a third wave from our point of view, just because the second one never ended,” said Dr. Cristiano Perani, head of an emergency room at a Brescia civic hospital. “The increase was gradual, but there has been an acceleration in the last few weeks.”
Lombardy governor Attilio Fontana said he told the Italian health minister on Thursday that the region needed “immediate delivery (vaccines) in the area where the virus is growing.”
Already, Lombardy – Italy’s most populous region – has implemented new lock-in measures in Brescia and renewed its vaccination strategy to bring its jobs to the province and cities nearby in nearby Bergamo. The aim of the strategy is to protect as many people as possible as soon as possible in the most deprived areas.
Guido Bertolaso, who heads the vaccination campaign, said the region was going to avoid the 30% reserves the national government is proposing to hold for a second dose, starting Thursday. They vaccinated residents aged 60-79, much earlier than scheduled. Lombardy recently began vaccinating people over the age of 80, after prioritizing health care workers and nursing home residents.
The goal of the strategy, Bertolaso said, is to create a “health cord” in the region with blanket vaccines. The approach is based on studies from Britain and Israel – and even on Lombardy ‘s own data – which show a reduction in infection rates as more people get the vaccine with just one dose.
“This is a war,” Bertolaso said.
Carabinieri officials round one of the main access roads to Bollate, on the outskirts of Milan in Italy. The Lombardy region of northern Italy, where the European coronavirus revolution began last year, called on the national government on Thursday to send more vaccines north to stop the rise of new cases which imposes a tax on the hospital system in the province of Brescia. Brescia, with a population of about 1.2 million, has its daily case ranging from the mid-100s in early February to 901 on Wednesday thanks in part to a number of cases of cases discovered for the British variety. (Photo AP / Luca Bruno)
Brescia’s deputy mayor, Laura Castelletti, said residents were willing to accept new lock-out measures – which include the closure of all schools and day care centers – while accelerating the vaccination schedule.
“We are ready to make sacrifices if the vaccination campaign goes ahead 24/7,” she said.
Brescia and Bergamo were two of the most affected Italian regions in the first wave of the pandemic, which began at this time last year and quickly turned Lombardy into the heart of the revolution in the Europe.
Lombardy as a whole still accounts for nearly a third of the 96,974 Italian diagnosed COVID-19 deaths, and one-fifth of the 2.87 million diseases diagnosed. Italy has the sixth highest death tax in the world, and the second in Europe after Britain.
The Italian vaccination campaign, which has administered 3.92 million doses, has been reduced by delays in delivery from the three EU-supplied pharmaceutical companies: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca .
It was not immediately clear whether the ministry of health would redirect any vaccines to Lombardy, with previously established quotas that have delivered the highest doses there.
Italian virus czar Domenico Arcuri did not address Fontana’s request in Thursday’s statement but boasted that inoculations showed a “comfortable rise” this week, getting around 100,000 a day nationally.
Nearly two months after Italy began its vaccination campaign on December 27, the small Republic of San Marino delivered its first dose on Thursday. San Marino, a city state of about 33,800 people surrounded by Italy, had to buy Russian doses of Sputnik V after a delay in receiving named doses from Italy.
“This is the most effective weapon we need to defeat this disease,” said Dr. Enrico Rossi, who was among the first inoculated. “It’s been very depressing this year but we hope it ends.”
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