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“More stringent measures and the gradual increase in the number of people vaccinated suggests that we will already have better figures in the second half of spring”Speranza said in an interview published this Sunday in the daily La Repubblica.

“The new fact is the variants, English in particular, which is prevalent in our country (…) and represents 54% of cases“Said the Italian minister, although he added that they expect this figure to be higher in the future.

Speranza stressed that although “each dose of vaccine injected is a step in the direction of a way out of the crisis”, cases in the country have rebounded. Italy is one of the countries where vaccination is progressing more slowly than expected and, moreover, last week Stopping the AstraZeneca vaccine after cases of thrombosis have been known in other countries, although it has not yet been determined whether this is a side effect of the drug.

Last Friday, a Council of Ministers was held during which it was decided that, From March 15 to April 6, regions “where the weekly number of infections exceeds 250 per 100,000 inhabitants will be considered red”.

The most populated regions in the north of the peninsula, including Lombardy, with Milan, as well as Lazio, with Rome, were classified as “red zones”, of total containment, as of Monday.

According to the color classification, the red area is the most contagious and involves the closure of schools, colleges and universities, as well as bars, cafes and restaurants, except for take out.

The other regions have been declared orange zone, of intermediate contagion, according to the ministry.

The island of Sardinia is the only white area, that is to say without contagion, after having subjected the entire population to anticovid tests.

With 102,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, the European country has recorded 26,000 cases this Saturday and 317 new deaths in the last 24 hours.