Covid in Italy, “with the end of the emergency the management of the pandemic changes, but the virus is always there”. Thus the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health Gianni Rezza comments on the data of the weekly monitoring Iss-Ministry of Health on Covid-19. “This week the incidence rate of Covid-19 cases in our country remains more or less stable, around 836 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. While the Rt index, 1.24, is still high, therefore well above the unit. . The employment rate in the medical area and in the ICU is 15.2% and 4.7% respectively, so we see a trend towards increasing employment in the medical area. ”
“The work of the Ministry of Health continues. Vaccines, use of masks, distancing, hand washing, are extremely useful tools that we are now used to using. So it is important to keep them” he concludes.