There are currently 219,441 coronavirus cases and 198 deaths in Italy. A quarter of cases are reported in Lombardy, with Milan as its capital, where visits to all hospitalized patients have been banned.
In a total of 1,138,310 diagnostic tests, 19.3% tested positive. In this phase, the positive citizens reach 1,593,579, of which 1,578,285 are in home isolation.
The number of patients with Covid-19 in the ICUs of the country is 1,467, while 13,827 patients are treated in the hospital wards.
Meanwhile, campaign hospitals are being set up again in the Sicilian capital, Palermo. “If you do not want to be vaccinated, at least stay home and do not infect other people,” say Sicilian doctors on Italian television.
The competent authorities, at the same time, gave the necessary “green light” for the administration of the third dose of the vaccine to children aged 12 to 15 years.
And the doctors of Naples appeal in dramatic tones: “the spread of the Omicron variant brought our hospitals to their knees. If there is no immediate intervention, in Naples we will experience what happened in Milan two years ago. “We need drastic decisions from the government, otherwise we will be forced to choose who we need to save, and we do not want to do that,” said Bruno Giucarelli, president of the Naples Medical Association. An appeal, according to all analysts, which wants to urge the Draghi government to impose compulsory vaccination of the entire population of the country.
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