Extremely worrying are the data coming from Italy and France about its pandemic coronavirus. The numbers show an increase in casualties and infections, which worries the authorities of the two countries even more.
Specifically, the last 24 hours in Italy There has been a sharp rise in coronavirus deaths, with more than 20,000 cases. The new incidents are 20,396 and 502 people lost their lives. In total, 369,379 diagnostic tests were performed, 5.5% of which were positive for Covid-19:
Yesterday, the cases were 15,267, with 354 dead. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,258,770 people have been infected and 103,001 have died in Italy. There are 99 more patients with Covid-19 in the intensive care units than yesterday. There are 760 more in the hospital wards.
In terms of the areas of the country with the most cases, in the first place is again Lombardy (4,235), followed by Campania (2,656) with Naples as its capital and Emilia Romagna (2,184) with Bologna as its main city.
According to the response of APE-MPE, on Tuesday afternoon (16/03), the Italian Ministry of Interior asked all the prefects to intensify the controls so that there are no crowds -despite the fact that half the country is in the red zone- and announced that in the first week of April, during Catholic Holy Week, inspections will focus mainly on stations, airports and highways.
The daily average in France exceeded 25,000 infections
Its prime minister France, Jean Castex, said today before the National Assembly that the country has entered the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the seven-day average of new cases exceeded 25,000 for the first time since November 20.
The country’s health authorities announced 29,975 new cases today, an increase of 4.5% compared to last Thursday and the largest weekly increase in a month and a half.
According to the country’s Ministry of Health and as broadcast by the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, 4,239 patients are being treated with new coronavirus in intensive care units, a number increased by 20 in the last 24 hours, which is a high of almost four months. The total number of Covid-19 patients treated for the disease increased by 23 to 25,492, a high of 24 February.
On the other, the death toll rose to 408, to 91,170, the seventh highest death toll in the world.
With 4.11 million cases since the beginning of the pandemic, France has the sixth highest infection rate in the world.
Draghi – Marcon telephone call for the AstraZeneca vaccine
The Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, recently had a telephone conversation with the French President, Emanuel Macron, regarding the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus in a number of European countries.
The two leaders stressed that in Italy and France the suspension will last until the day after tomorrow, the 18th of the month, when the European Medicines Agency (Coreper) will announce the conclusions of its investigations and verifications.
At the same time, according to the Italian media, Draghi and Macron consider today’s assurances, which were given during the press conference of the executive director of EMA, Emer Cook, to be encouraging.
According to what is leaked, the Italian government is ready – in case of a positive decision of the European Medicines Agency – to support the continuation of the vaccination campaign with a new public information campaign.
It is estimated that if vaccinations resume normally, in Italy the delays of these days will be able to be replenished within about two weeks.
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