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More than a year after Italian IC doctor Annalisa Malara discovered the first corona infection in the hospital of Codogno, Italy has announced that it will extend the travel ban by one month between the 6 regions until after Easter. Other corona measures will also continue to apply at least until April XNUMX, so until after the start of what is normally the first major travel season. According to Health Minister Roberto Speranza, it is necessary to maintain the measures, given the advance of the British virus variant. Young people in particular are also severely affected by this variant.

numbers continue to rise

While everyone is talking about opening terraces and easing, the infection rates continue to rise. The Italian government has also decided to tighten the rules for schools by moving to distance education in the hard-hit red zones. In the less affected yellow zones, theaters and cinemas are allowed to reopen with a limited audience from 27 March. Museums, which were already allowed to open there on working days, can from then also open their doors on weekends. Yet nobody wants to talk about a third wave with spring and the nice weather approaching. Spacious a year ago IC doctor in Northern Italy discovered the first European corona patient and the first corona death fell.

Source: JHU CSSE COVID-19 Data

vaccination the outcome

China wants to have 40 percent of its population vaccinated against the corona virus by June. By the end of the year, 80 percent of the more than 1,3 billion Chinese should be protected, state media reported Wednesday. Until now, 3,5 percent of the Chinese population has received a vaccine. In America, sufficient corona vaccines will be available to all adult Americans by the end of May. President Joe Biden announced this on Tuesday. The European Medicines Agency EMA will pass judgment on the corona vaccine of the American pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson on 11 March. The agency has officially confirmed this.

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Roberto Speranza
Health Minister Roberto Speranza