Italy: Omicron mutation gallops – “If we keep schools open, we should definitely close something else”

Anxiety causes in Italy the Gimbe Scientific Foundation’s forecast for its spread coronavirus with a background of Omicron mutation.

“The increase in cases does not lead to a corresponding increase in the number of patients admitted to hospitals, but at this upward rate of new infections, there is a risk that hospitals will fill up. We can reach the two million positive citizens“, Stressed the president of the Gimbe Foundation, Nino Kartabelota.

“The government, with its partial measures, has not been able to curb the spread of the virus,” he told a radio station in Rome. At the same time he agreed in favor of the immediate return of a large percentage of citizens to distance work, according to the ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ. The head of the Gimbe Foundation stressed that in Italy, on average, 100,000 new cases are recorded per day, while 1,200 patients are admitted to hospitals every 24 hours and 120 to intensive care units.

According to his analysis, “Even if – with two million cases – only 1% of patients are admitted to the hospital, it means that 20,000 beds will be filled”. The Gimbe Scientific Institute, which records the pandemic in the country every week, Recognizes that vaccines have reduced hospital admissions, but calls for further restriction of interpersonal contacts.

“If we decide to keep them open schools, we should definitely book something else because schools are undoubtedly a place with a significant rate of infections“, Concluded Nino Kartabelota.

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