Italy has announced new containment and all of France is awaiting Macron’s decision

Italy is preparing to receive Holy Week interior doors, with a new confinement. Of April 3-5, Easter holidays throughout Italy, the country will enter the already known ‘Red zone’ in which restaurants can only do delivery Yes interprovincial travel is prohibited. Likewise, during these days, only a maximum of two people They can visit another house and only once a day.

Italy’s Health Ministry reported today that the country has registered 15,267 infections and 354 deaths from coronavirus in just 24 hours, figures that certify the increase of the epidemiological curve, since Monday of last week there were 2,500 fewer cases in a single day.

In all, Italy accumulate so far 102,499 deaths and 3,238,394 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic a year ago.
Two days ago, the Johns Hopkins University Statistics Center updated its global data wheel: the coronavirus pandemic has left 453,996 cases in just 24 hours. And, worst of all, 8,690 new deaths worldwide.

Of the 179,015 samples taken on Monday 15th, 8.5% of them gave a positive result. Monday’s bulletin includes a positive rate of 8.5% of the 179,015 tests performed. Emilia Romagna is the region with the highest number of cases in the last 24 hours, followed by Lombardy Yes Campania.

More cases and one vaccine less

These national measures and the increase in cases come when the Italian drug regulator, Aifa, suspended the use of the drug nationwide. AstraZeneca vaccine As a precaution. ”To specify subsequently that it will not be considered again for inoculation of the population until it has been issued by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Belgian Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke described that it was “irresponsible” to stop the vaccination after France, Germany, Italy and Spain suspended application of the vaccine by Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

“AstraZeneca is a vaccine that protects very well and strongly against COVID-19. In the coming days thousands of people will be vaccinated, especially the elderly, something very positive because these people are vulnerable”, argued the responsible for the Belgian channel RTBF.

France, faced with “new decisions”

On the other hand, in France, doctors and authorities are starting to worry about the increase cases hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU). On Monday March 15, they were counted in Paris 1,134 more hospitalizations than in mid-November, as the country was experiencing its second wave of coronavirus, before New Year’s Eve. That same day, the death toll was 333.

“The health system of the Ile-de-France region is at such a level of occupation that since last week 40% of the operations planned to free 1,577 intensive care beds have been deprogrammed”, specifies the press agency Europa.

Almost half of the scheduled operations have been postponed, so as not to saturate the French hospital system

Local newspapers also reported that six patients had been transferred by helicopter to other areas, to free up beds. At this time, the country records 25,469 people hospitalized for coronavirus.

President Emmanuel Macron expected to rate the take “New decisions” in the coming days to curb the coronavirus epidemic while also awaiting the opinion of the EMA on the adverse effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

The incidence rate of infected people is 404 on Monday, March 15, while the standard which measures the need to take measures is 400 per 100,000 inhabitants. Therefore, the president said they should be taken “New decisions”. And added that “The master of time is the virus”, in reference to the fact that the spread of the virus drives the agenda and the speed of decision-making.

“We all have to reconcile different dimensions of the life of our nation: protecting the weakest, […] protect our health system, protect yourself from the anguish that accompanies isolation, (…) protect by educating our children and young people who need it, protect while allowing economic and social life to continue», Declared the president a few minutes before meeting his counterpart Pedro Sánchez, in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), in Occitanie, where they hold a Franco-Spanish summit.