After vaccine day yesterday, December 27, Italy returns to orange. Thus closes the first phase of the red zone of the Christmas holidays, which began on December 24th. For the nation, government regulations now include three orange days, until new Year's Eve.

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The change of color involves the opening of shops and moving around the Municipality without self-certification. Meanwhile, monitoring on infections continues. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the new positive cases registered today are 8.585 (yesterday 8.913) while the new deaths are 445 (yesterday 298). The discharged healed are 14.675 (yesterday 7.798); overall the positive cases since the outbreak of the pandemic are 575.221, 6.539 less than yesterday.

Italy is orange but the vaccination campaign does not stop

"Nobody back down, the vaccine is safe, all the phases were carried out with great seriousness respecting the time necessary for the best choices ". This was reiterated by Rosaria Capobianchi, director of the virology laboratory of the Spallanzani first vaccinated in Italy, which explains her adherence to the campaign. “I would have wanted to vaccinate, even if I hadn't been included among the first, I would have done it. It is important that no one back down. This choice is sure, of absolute altruism and love for our loved ones and for the community. The benefits are enormously greater than possible side effects "

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, 90 thousand health workers have been infected

Su 2.019.660 cases of contagion from SARS-CoV-2 occurred in Italy since the beginning of the pandemic, 89.879 concerned health workers. In fact, the first anti-Covid vaccinations have started in favor of this category. This is what the latest data of the integrated Covid-19 surveillance by the Higher Institute of Health (Iss) reveal, updated as of yesterday, December 27th.

Covid, Italy returns to orange until New Year's Eve last edit: 2020-12-28T17:45:38+01:00 da Maria Scaramuzzino

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