The pandemic advances and the EU evaluates the use of the Russian Sputnik vaccine

Covid emergency: in Italy, unfortunately, infections are always on the rise while the EU evaluates the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. As for the contagion curve, the Ministry of Health announces that in the last 24 hours they have been registered 22.865 new positive cases (20.884 yesterday). The deaths are 339 compared to 347 yesterday. I am 339.635 i swabs molecular and antigenic for Coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours; yesterday there were 358.884. The positivity rate is 6,7 percent compared to yesterday's 5,8 percent.

In Italy, patients admitted to intensive care due to Covid are 2475, an increase of 64 in the daily balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions to resuscitation were well 232. I am in home isolation 423.807 people infected with the virus. The discharged healed today are 13.488 (yesterday 14.068); altogether the positive cases are 446.439 practically 9.018 in more than yesterday.

The EU evaluates the use of the Russian Sputnik vaccine

Meanwhile, at the European level, the EMA has started the evaluation of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. The same makes it known European Medicines Agency. In the press release, the EMA specifies that the German branch of the Russian pharmaceutical group R-Pharm submitted the application for the EU. The decision to start the review in real time, Ema continues, is based on the results of laboratory studies and clinical studies on adults. The review will continue until sufficient evidence is available for the formal application for a marketing authorization.

At the same time, Italy is the first EU country to refuse the export of doses of Astrazeneca vaccines. According to what is learned in Brussels, the Italian authorities have notified the European Commission of the decision to block the export of a batch of vaccines from the pharmaceutical company. There are over 250 thousand doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine that Italy has proposed to block, based on the new European export control mechanism. The proposal met with the support of the EU Commission.