International COVID-19 Megathread

[Battista Minola 1616]

Italy will have a big round of reopenings, most significantly of schools, starting overmorrow on April 26th.
Our cases per day have been clearly declining and our deaths per day as well. Our vaccination campaign keeps speeding up although little by little. The "third wave" in Italy was pretty mild in the end at least compared to its starting point, fortunately.

[Battista Minola 1616]

An update on Italy which I had not made in, I believe, quite a long time:

New cases and new deaths per day have just kept falling and falling, and those statistics have reached the lowest level since last summer. By now, even if the colour-coded areas still exist, the majority of the country is in "white zone", which amounts to barely any restriction aside from having to wear a mask for most things in daily life. Almost half of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine and more than a quarter has received a complete vaccination; the rate of new jabs seems to have stopped accelerating after reaching about 550 thousand a day, but it is still fairly strong.

[Battista Minola 1616]

The rates of cases, vaccines et cetera in Italy keep proceeding in the right direction so I have little to say there, but a significant update is that since last Monday masks are not required anymore in any open space (although they still officially are indoors).