The virus killed 83 other people throughout Italy, one of the victims is a 69-year-old woman in the province of Nuoro. And the data on deaths and infections are increasingly frightening: those of yesterday, as happens every day, are more serious than the figures released on Wednesday last week. Yesterday the victims in the national territory were 12.2% more than a week before, but the other indicators are not good at all: national and Sardinian. The Delta and Delta plus variants do not give up and the increasingly low number of Italians who are injected with the first dose of vaccine (around 7.6 million are missing, who prefer to risk contagion rather than get immunized), cause fear what is already assumed: it will get worse day after day.

The mayor of Nuoro

Everyone is worried, particularly in Nuoro, in whose province the woman killed yesterday by the pandemic lived. The mayor of the capital of Barbagia appealed to citizens to go and get vaccinated: "After a long period in which we have not registered any particular increases in infections", confirms Andrea Soddu, "in recent days we have seen an increase in cases of positivity in city. It is necessary to constantly observe the regulations ”. The mayor himself recalls that vaccination is "the only way to avoid the risk of falling back into the terrible periods of restrictions: this is why I appeal to everyone's conscience and sensitivity to behave responsibly".

Third doses

In the meantime, the race for third doses has begun on the island. Record response of the Sardinians in the first hours after the opening of the bookings for the recall for the over 40s. At 6pm 18,988 people had been booked, 13,100 of whom belonged to the 40-59 year old group. "An extraordinary response, which makes me proud and demonstrates once again - comments the President of the Region, Christian Solinas - the great maturity of the Sardinian people and the full and precious collaboration of citizens in the effort that the Region is putting in place to fight the pandemic. All vaccination hubs ", adds the president," have been upgraded or are being upgraded, to ensure that everyone is vaccinated according to pre-established times. The Region will use all the means at its disposal to ensure an efficient service and a continuation of the vaccination campaign capable of thwarting new waves ”.

Within the general panorama, at the moment the island can boast a relatively good picture. "Even today, despite a general worsening of the data on infections", Solinas confirms, "the situation in Sardinia is perfectly under control and the incidence of hospitalizations remains very low, as is the Rt index. We must keep our guard up and take awareness of the usefulness of vaccination as the first and most effective weapon against the virus ".

(Unioneonline)

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