TORONTO – After the two doses, elderly residents of long-term care and retirement homes are now recommended the booster vaccine. To recommend its administration is the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) which has included this suggestion among its guidelines updated in recent days. Residents of these facilities “are at greater risk of Covid-19 infection due to their daily interactions with other residents and staff, as well as being at greater serious illness due to their age and previous pathologies”, reads the document. →
TORONTO – Ontario remains above 800 new daily cases of Covid-19 and the seven-day moving average continues to rise: 757 compared to the 688 average daily infections a week ago. On Sunday (latest data available for Ontario), 811 new cases and 3 deaths were recorded in the province. On Saturday there were 944 infections, on Friday 805. The provincial laboratories processed 22,410 test samples, generating a positive rate of at least 2.9%. →
TORONTO – Ontario’s mass immunization campaign against Covid-19 continues unabated. The provincial government today announced an important milestone reached in the last few hours: one in two adults in the province has already received the first and second dose of vaccine. During a press conference Christine Elliott, together with Sollicitor Genral Sylvia Jones, reiterated that the vaccination campaign is not only meeting the timetable foreseen by the executive, but that even the numbers are higher than those budgeted. →
ROMA – Sono risultati 1.010 i neo positivi al test del coronavirus, registrati ieri in Italia, mentre sono state 14 le nuove vittime. 177.977 i tamponi molecolari e antigenici effettuati nelle ultime 24 ore, su tutto il territorio nazionale, col tasso di positività pressoché stabile allo 0,56%. Sono tuttora 180 i pazienti ricoverati per Covid nei reparti ospedalieri di terapia intensiva, con un calo di 7 unità rispetto a martedì…
Articolo di Mariella Policheni — Video: Rosanna Colavecchia
TORONTO – L’Ontario spinge sull’acceleratore. A partire dalle 8 di questa mattina, tutti gli abitanti dell’Ontario di età pari o superiore a 18 anni che hanno ricevuto la prima dose di un vaccino mRNA potranno prenotare un appuntamento per ricevere la seconda prima del previsto. Ciò accelererà l’idoneità alla seconda dose per circa 1,5 milioni di abitanti dell’Ontario. →