The data show "an increase in the epidemic curve, with a progressive increase in the weekly incidence of new cases and in the mean Rt calculated on symptomatic cases equal to 0.96". This is what is read in a circular by Commissioner Francesco Figliuolo, in which it is emphasized that "the growth in infections does not correspond, for now, to a proportional increase in hospitalizations".
An epidemiological picture, the current one, which "falls between the hypothesized scenarios and the vaccination campaign, which has reached 86.41% of those over 12 vaccinated with at least one dose and 83.18 with a full cycle, proving to be decisive in limiting severe forms of disease, with positive repercussions on health and on the hospital system ".
The commissioner then underlines that what is happening in some European countries with the so-called pandemic of the unvaccinated "strongly indicates the need to increase the rate of administration of third doses and to continue with the completion of the primary cycles". Hence the request to the Regions to "reinforce the work of information and awareness on anti-Covid vaccination".
So the clarification: at the moment "booster doses only for over 60s", for the under they should only be given to "health personnel, subjects with high frailty and those vaccinated with single-dose product". At the moment, therefore, "there is no provision for additional potential target groups, such as school personnel, security". The Campania Region goes against the trend, which today announced the departure of third doses for school staff.
In the coming months, concludes the extraordinary commissioner, a "future expansion of the vaccination offer to the 5-11 year old audience is" probable ". With the little ones we could leave, explained the coordinator of the CTS Franco Locatelli this morning, before Christmas.
(Unioneonline / L)