Italy has surpassed the one million coronavirus case mark. The country currently has 613.358 assets
Italy surpassed the mark of 11 million cases of Covid-1 this Wednesday (19) – a total of 1.028.424, since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to Italian Civil Defense bulletin, in the last 24 hours the country registered 32.961 new cases. 225.640 tests were carried out.
The number of deaths rose again: 623 – yesterday there were 580. The total number of deaths since the beginning of the emergency is 42.953.
Those recovered total 9.090 in the last 24 hours. Today, Italy has 613.358 active cases.
Vaccine by the end of this year
The Italian government has set up a working group to organize the logistics of distributing future vaccines against the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus across all regions of the country.
Italian political authorities have already given different deadlines for the start of vaccination, but the The expectation is that the first doses will be available at the end of this year.
The European Union has already guaranteed the purchase of 1,4 billion units of four vaccine candidates against Sars-CoV-2, including medications developed by the University of Oxford, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and the Biontech/Pfizer consortium, according to information from Handle.
5 more regions with restrictions
Italy today increased restrictions in five regions of the country to contain the new coronavirus pandemic.
Abruzzo, Basilicata, Liguria, Tuscany and Umbria, which until last Tuesday (10) were considered yellow areas, were included by the Ministry of Health in the orange zone, the penultimate level on the risk scale defined by the government.
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