At the end of the month, Italy will lift the obligation to wear a chinstrap in sanitary settings. The country will seek to treat Covid-19 like any other “similar” virus.
He April 30th will rise in Italy the obligation of the latest measures still in force on the occasion of the covid-19 pandemicso it will no longer be mandatory to wear a chinstrap in the health structures, hospitals, clinics and medical consultations.
However, the last word rests with the Ministry of Health, which in the coming days will decide whether to renew the obligation, eliminate it completely or soften it in some areas, leaving the use of masks for places where there are more fragile patients such as immunosuppressed or the elderly in residences.
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Another possibility would be to leave the choice to the general directors, but for the moment there is no definitive decision and in the coming days the epidemiological data will also be evaluated.
“We have to get out of the dimension of obligation. It is time to treat Sars-Cov-2 like other similar viruses”, assured,
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Leaving behind said measure will have positive effects in many aspects that overload the hospital Organization, in what has to do, for example, with PCR,” says Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic San Martino Polyclinic Hospital in Genoa and president of the Italian Society for Anti-infective Therapy.
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China will announce this Tuesday its first quarterly data on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) since the end of the sanitary restrictions against the virus, a figure that according to analysts should mark a rebound in the second world economy.
The policy of the Asian giant to contain the disease, with strict quarantines, massive tests and travel restrictionsseverely limited economic activity, until the authorities abruptly abandoned it in December.
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The figures to be released on Tuesday will give the first snapshot since 2019 of the Chinese economy unencumbered by health restrictions.
Source: Ambito
