Covid, Draghi: "Accelerate with the vaccination campaign"

Speaking in Parliament, Prime Minister Mario Draghi clearly says that we need to speed up the vaccination campaign to overcome the pandemic upsurge we are experiencing in recent weeks.

Draghi: "Accelerate with the vaccination campaign"

"One year later, we must do everything possible to resolve the crisis. We know how to do it, we have 4 safe and effective vaccines; moreover, in April it also arrives Johnson & Johnson. The goal is to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible. We are already working to compensate for the delay of recent months. The acceleration of the vaccination campaign is already visible in the data. In the first three weeks of March, the average administration amounted to 170 thousand doses per day, more than double the average of the previous two months. Our goal is to bring the pace to half a million a day".

So Prime Minister Draghi speaking to the Chamber of Deputies. "Accelerating with the vaccination campaign is essential to curb the infection, to return to normal and to avoid the emergence of new variants", emphasizes the chairman of the board. "If compared to the rest of Europe, things here are already quite good now - highlights Draghi - For vaccines made, Italy is second after Spain, but for the well-known reasons the European Union is behind many other countries" .

Today's data

According to the data provided by the Ministry of Health are 21.267 the new positive cases recorded in Italy in the last 24 hours. Yesterday there were 18.765. The deaths of today are 460 (yesterday 551). I am 363.767 the molecular and antigenic swabs carried out during the day; yesterday there were 335.189. The positivity rate is 5,8 percent, yesterday it was 5,6 percent.

The total cases since the beginning of the epidemic are 3.440.862, while the deaths rise to 106.339. Currently there are 561.308 positive, up 654 compared to yesterday. Since the start of the pandemic, however, 2.773.215 have been healed and discharged, with an increase in the last 24 hours of 20.132. In intensive care there are 3.588 Covid patients, 42 more than yesterday. They still remain in home isolation 529.282 people infected with virus.