For the upcoming State-Regions Conference, new provisions are being considered to regulate the reopening of activities penalized by anti-Covid restrictions. “The decision on reopening will probably be made next week from cabinet". Thus the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti, during the meeting at the Mise with the representatives of Fipe-Confcommercio. Meanwhile, the monitoring of data regarding the spread of the pandemic in our country continues.
According to data released by the Ministry of Health, in Italy they registered in the last 24 hours 13.447 new positive cases (yesterday 9.789). The new deaths are 476 (yesterday 358); the discharged / healed are 18.160 (yesterday 18.010). Overall, the positive cases are 519.220, practically 5.197 cheaper than yesterday. The swabs always carried out in the last 24 hours are 304.990; Covid patients admitted to intensive care are 3.526. I am in home isolation 488.742 people infected with the virus.
Activity reopening
Safely reopen restaurants for lunch and dinner by taking advantage of the open spaces. This is the hypothesis contained in the draft guidelines on reopening, which the Regions will submit to the government on Thursday during the State-Regions Conference. According to the document - which updates the lines attached to the March Dpcm - these indications must be compatible with the improvement of the data. This, also in the light of a review of the evaluation parameters. At the same time, regulation of the restarting of gyms, cinemas, theaters and museums is also envisaged. "I am in favor of reopening. We have improving data, the RT has dropped, and it is likely that it will continue to decline this week as well ”.
Therefore, "consolidating the results, starting from May XNUMXst we can talk about reopening ”. The Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri said this during a television broadcast, underlining however that "we must check the data and keep what we have earned, so as not to risk closing immediately". No, therefore, to anticipate the reopening before April 30th. But if the numbers of the decline are consolidated, falling below an incidence of 180 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, “from May XNUMXst we can return to a more tenuous color in the Regions. Indeed, some may go back to being white ". In this context, even reopening the restaurants in the evening for Sileri “may be feasible. Not immediately from May XNUMXst but progressively from week to week, to arrive at the beginning of June with openings on the English model ”.
The US suspends the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
While the first doses of the Janssen vaccine are expected in Italy Johnson & Johnson, In the USA, reports the New York Times, suspension is requested. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control will stop using the vaccine at federal sites and will urge states to do the same. The suspension is linked to six cases in the United States who developed a rare disease involving blood clots in the two weeks following vaccination.
All six cases of rare disease involved women between the ages of 18 and 48, the NYT writes, citing officials informed of the case. One of these died while a second, in Nebraska, was hospitalized in critical condition. About seven million people in the United States have so far received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. "We recommend a break in the use of this vaccine out of caution," the Food and Drug Administration announced on Twitter.
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