On the 25th, 40,000 new positive cases of new crown were added! What will Italy offer Ukrainian refugees?

Italy's "Chinese Street" news Novavax vaccine arrived in various regions - February 25, the Ministry of Health announced that 40,948 new infections and 193 deaths in 24 hours; 440,000 swab tests of various swabs, with a positive rate of 9.3%; fewer and fewer inpatients, 419 patients in general wards decreased to 11,706 cases, and patients in intensive care decreased by 40 to 799 cases; 1.17 million people with real-time positive infections nationwide; and 12,693,320 cases of infections in Italy so far. The cumulative number of deaths was 154,206. Today, the Novavax vaccine is distributed to all regions, starting on Monday, The Veneto, Lombardy and other regions began to start vaccination, and the government hopes that diehards who "do not trust the mRNA vaccine" can choose a safer Novavax vaccine.

Rt infection values fell to an 8-month low – on February 25, Ansa reported that the incidence of COVID-19 and the Rt introduction index in Italy continued to decline in the week from February 18 to February 24. Weekly monitoring results released from Iss and the Ministry of Health show that the national Rt infection value fell to 0.73, a new low in 8 months, and the weekly incidence fell to 552 per 100,000 inhabitants nationwide (672 were recorded last week). Hospital inpatients also continued to decline, with intensive care occupancy falling to 8.4 percent from 10.4 percent last week and general hospital ward occupancy falling to 18.5 percent from 22.2 percent last week.

Ilaria Capua, an Italian virologist and director of the Health Center at the University of Florida in the United States, said in an interview with National Television 3: "There will definitely be other variants of the new coronavirus, but we will be more and more capable of dealing with them, Ansa reported on February 25. Now we have a lot of tools to fight the virus, so it is natural to face up to the reality of the normalization of the new crown virus and coexistence with humans. It's normal, people live in a myriad of pathogens." "The virus is not going away and it is likely that we will need to wear masks again at the beginning of winter in November, but only need to endure for a few months and cooperate with vaccinations," she stressed.

Rome's tourism industry asks the government to solve the crisis – Il Campidoglio asked the Draghi government to solve the tourism crisis in Rome as soon as possible, and Rome lost 80% of tourists, especially foreign tourists, in the two years of the pandemic, AGI News Agency reported. Labour Minister Orlando is open to the possibility, while Tourism Minister Garavaglia is focusing on restoring mobility. The trend of COVID-19 infections has slowed, providing a realistic basis for the lifting of restrictions on the movement of people. A third of Rome's more than 1,200 hotels remain closed, with some never reopened since the lockdown in 2020. In recent months, some prominent hotels such as Sheraton, Majestic and Ambasciatori have launched firing procedures, and nearly 10,000 hotel workers will lose their jobs.

Italy moves towards a 'new phase' of opening up – On Feb. 25, Fanpage reported that Italy's health minister said today: "The pandemic curve is bending and we are gradually moving towards a more open phase: we will not extend the state of emergency after March 31, and we will gradually assess how to adapt the existing approach to epidemic prevention to the new stage." The government is confident in the future, but it must act cautiously and wisely, and every step must be safe and gradual. We will be out of the national emergency, but this does not mean that the virus has disappeared, Italy has carried out 133 million vaccinations ... This allows us to cope with the Omicron wave without a general lockdown and reopen a new phase."

Altems reports: "The pandemic is still out of control" – On February 25, Adnkronos reported that the incidence of new infections is decreasing every week, but the Covid pandemic in Italy is not yet under control and remains in a state of "out of control". Regular reports from altems, a catholic university's high school of economics and health systems management, state that new infections are indeed declining, but the rate of decline is "more than halved in four weeks", that is, the downward trend of infections is slower and slower. The outbreak in the North-West has improved significantly, with the lowest risk areas being Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont and Lombardy, while the Marche region is the region with the slowest "slowdown".

Lazio injects monoclonals into people who do not respond to vaccines – On February 25, Adnkronos reported that the Lazio region will inject intramuscular monoclonal antibodies for those who are unable to respond to the coronavirus vaccine. Starting next Monday, about 2,000 doses of Evusheld monoclonal antibodies will begin injecting at the Inmi Spallanzani Hospital in Rome, "first for patients undergoing transplantation and treating leukemia."

Italy is gradually recovering more white zones – the situation is improving and is becoming whiter as Covid cases decrease and hospital pressure gradually eases. On Feb. 25, Fanpage reported that the orange area will cease to exist starting next week. Health Minister Speranza today signed a new decree: from Monday, February 28, Friuli Venezia Giulia returns to the yellow zone, while the autonomous provinces of Campania, Lombardy, Veneto and Bolzano officially return to the white zone. As Prime Minister Draghi announced a few days ago, with the end of the state of emergency, the color system is destined to be cancelled on March 31.

More than 5 million children have become "COVID-19 orphans" – an international study published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health on Feb. 25 showed that every death corresponds to an orphan, with a total of 5.2 million people under the age of 18 suffering the death of their parents or guardians as a result of the pandemic, with the largest group affected being adolescents aged 10 to 17, about 2.1 million, accounting for almost a third of the "COVID-19 orphans" group. Given that deaths from Covid-19 disproportionately affect men, three-quarters of orphans worldwide have lost their fathers. The data includes data on deaths in 20 major countries around the world, including the United States, India, the United Kingdom and Peru, as of October 31, 2021.

What will Italy offer Ukrainian refugees? — On February 25, Fanpage reported that Italy is the largest Ukrainian community in the European Union, with more than 236,000 people living in Italy and sending more than 200 million euros in remittances to Ukraine every year. Russia's war against Ukraine has driven tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens to the country's border, and in the past few hours, the first refugees have crossed the Moldovan and Polish borders, and the risk of humanitarian catastrophe is real, with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people fleeing Ukraine in the future. As Europe's largest gathering of Ukrainians, Ukrainians living in Italy will want to "apply for family reunification for relatives who fled Ukraine for war reasons."

—Calia, Editor of Chinese Street