Italy Reports Nearly 20,000 New Confirmed Cases as Mutated Virus Spreads Rapidly

Italy’s Ministry of Civil Protection reported Tuesday that 19,886 new cases of the disease have been confirmed, including 308 deaths, Euronetwork reported, citing the European Union news agency.
A total of 2,8684,435 cases have been confirmed, 96,974 have died and 2,375,318 have been cured.

The number of new cases in Italy rose by nearly 10% nationwide, with 41 provinces reporting more than 20% new cases, after four weeks of stabilization, the nonprofit medical research organization GIMBE said in its weekly report on the epidemic on Thursday.
This suggests that the viral variant novel coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Italy.

Italy’s National Institutes of Health said on Thursday that researchers have detected a novel coronavirus found in Britain and Brazil in the waste water of Perugia and Guardiagrele in the region of Abruzzo.

A novel coronavirus strain was found in the waste water samples of February 5 solstice8 in Perugia, Central Umbria region of Italy.
The Spanish variant was found in the waste water sample of Guardia Grele on January 21 and BBB 0 on January 26 in the Abruzzo region of southern central Italy.

Professor Pierluigi Lopalco, Puglia’s health commissioner and an epidemiologist, said it was necessary to close schools to avoid the third wave of novel coronavirus.
At present, schools are the most vulnerable link in the pandemic. With the spread of mutated viruses and the increase of underage infections, schools should use distance learning as much as possible to contain the spread of the epidemic.

Surge in Cases of the Mutant Virus

Italy’s Ministry of Civil Protection reported on the 24th 16,424 new confirmed cases, including 318 deaths.
As of 6 PM Tuesday, 2,848,564 cases have been confirmed, 96,666 have died and 2,362,465 have been cured.

According to the latest data released by Milan’s public health department, a total of 547 people were infected with novel coronavirus in Milan schools during the week of February 15, 21, including 409 students, 138 teachers and other staff members.
As a result, 5,902 students, 204 teachers and school staff, for a total of 6,106 people, were quarantined.

Italy’s Higher Health Agency said 17.5 percent of the new confirmed cases were minors, a far cry from the 2 percent of the total at the start of the outbreak.
That means a fifth of the infections occurred in schools because the mutated virus found in the UK is more contagious.

Italy’s National Commission for Science, Technology and Science has advised Prime Minister Mario Draghi to be cautious about reopening the country and warned that more than 30 percent of the newly infected people were infected with a variant of the virus found in the UK.
By mid-March, the mutated virus will be the most common source of infection in Italy.

“The study confirms that the mutated virus found in the UK is more likely to spread among minors, which will require us to rethink the use of distance learning in high schools,” said Koda, head of infectious diseases at Roma Gemele University Hospital.

On the afternoon of 24th local time, Italian Health Minister Giorgio Speranza said in a report on the epidemic in the Senate and House of Representatives that Italy does not yet constitute the conditions for the relaxation of control.

Speranza said the mutated virus found in Britain was spreading widely and Italy needed to raise its alert level.
Two other variants, found in Brazil and South Africa, make the vaccine less effective and are therefore more dangerous than those found in Britain.
At present, the spread of these two variants of the virus is still weak, it is necessary to quarantine the epidemic areas.

Mutated Virus Spreading Rapidly in the US: Experts Issue Dire Warnings

As of February 8, more than 106 million cases of the virus have been confirmed worldwide, including nearly 27 million in the United States, according to real-time data from Johns Hopkins University.

According to the China News Service on February 8, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States has reached nearly 27 million, with more than 463,000 deaths.
According to a digital model published by a team of researchers at Columbia University, on any given day, the actual number of active cases in the United States — people newly infected or still infectious — may be 10 times the number of officially reported cases on that day.
The situation is even worse given the current number of active cases.
On average, infected people are contagious three to four days before symptoms appear, said lead researcher and Columbia University infectious disease expert David Shaman.
So the study also counted those who were infected before and those who are still spreading the virus.

Meanwhile, the new crown variant is spreading rapidly in the United States.
Novel coronavirus, a variant previously found in the United Kingdom, is spreading rapidly in the United States and has even seen significant community spread, a new study finds.
The study estimated that the mutated virus was 35 to 45 per cent more infectious than earlier versions of the virus that had emerged in the US.
But many people infected with the mutated virus in the United States have not reported recent international travel, suggesting that the virus “has had significant community transmission throughout the United States.”

It’s worth noting that the outbreak’s rapid spread comes just before the Super Bowl.
The 55th annual Super Bowl of the National Football League (NFL) will take place in Tampa, Florida.
The Super Bowl will also increase the spread of the disease in the United States.
On Feb. 5, Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, also warned that “everyone can enjoy the Super Bowl, but don’t have large crowds gathering indoors, especially if there’s not good ventilation.”
On the same day, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans not to party, but to stay at home and watch the broadcast, so that the Super Bowl does not become a viral event.

, assistant researcher, of the China institute of contemporary international relations in the United States institute Sun Chenghao, according to the current outbreak in the United States have no obvious improvement, the vaccine in distribution and inventory problems in such aspects as the current epidemic situation is relatively serious, while on the mend, but certainly not to the extent to which a big sporting event, the cluster sex is a big sports event might lead to a greater risk of the disease spread.

Improving Cognitive Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Effective Strategies

We have introduced to you before the limitations of children with autism spectrum disorder in cognitive understanding ability, such as their way of understanding is single, always focus on a certain aspect of things, unable to look at the things around from a comprehensive view, more unable to summarize the rules of the development of things.

Tigers two days ago and father went to the zoo, they saw tigers, pandas, and giraffes, in watching the tiger, father specially said to the tiger: “tiger, you see, in front of that is the tiger, and the tiger the same name!”
Because his name also has a “tiger” word, tiger to see the tiger is very interested in, also therefore know the tiger this animal, went to the zoo, on the way back, tiger saw the tiger is also excited pointing at the tiger said: “tiger, tiger!”

Mother took the tiger to go to the supermarket, after a clothing store, inside a little cat “meow, meow, meow” called, the tiger turned to see the little cat, also pointed to the little cat said: “big tiger.”
Mother said to the tiger: “that is a small cat, not a tiger.”
But the little tiger still believed that it was the big tiger.

While ordinary children may think about the difference between a cat and a tiger after hearing a parent’s explanation, children with autism spectrum disorders have a hard time understanding the difference between the two animals in the short term.

So how can we improve the cognitive understanding of children with autism?

Interest Guidance:

All achievements interest beginning, when children are particularly interested in something, do not need parents too much exhortations, they will be immersed in, enjoy the fun of learning.

If the child likes drawing, then we can start from drawing and teach the girl to know all kinds of colors.
At the same time, you can learn many other things while painting different works.

If a child wants to draw a puppy, mom and dad can first give the child a look at the puppy photos and cartoon pictures, and then guide the child to draw a cute puppy, in the process of explaining the characteristics of the dog to the child, coloring, the child will also realize that the dog is also a lot of colors.
There are white dogs, and there are brown dogs.

When drawing, you can also train your child’s cognition of characters.
Even if the child’s drawing is abstract, we can give names to the people in the child’s drawing: Daddy, Mommy, Baby, Grandpa, Grandma, or listen carefully to the child’s thoughts as he draws.

If your child loves music and singing, we can use the lyrics of songs to help your child deepen their understanding of the things around them.

Matching game

Games can also exercise and improve children’s cognitive skills, and the emphasis is on how parents can design games to participate with their children.

We can match the game through the training card and the real thing. In a fixed time, parents and children compete together to see who can match more and more accurately!
For example, matching of the same color, matching of the same shape, or matching of the same kind of things like apples, bananas, pears, grapes, watermelons, pitaya, kiwi are all fruits;
Dogs, cats, lions, tigers, foxes, elephants, monkeys, doves, roosters and ducklings are all animals.
Sofa, bed, bookcase, table, chair and so on belong to furniture class;
Books, pens, paper, ink, rulers are stationery and so on.

Of course, in the process of the game, we should stimulate the child’s interest in the game, many times also need to use the reinforcement strategy, appropriate to let the child win a few times, is also a very good reinforcement for the child.

Ask divergent questions

Sometimes, when we communicate with children, in order to reduce the difficulty of communication, we usually ask questions in a closed way.

Closed questions can help simplify the way children communicate, but it is not conducive to children’s divergent thinking.
So parents should also reasonably adopt some ways to promote children’s divergent thinking.

For example, you and your child see a kitten and ask, “Is this a kitten?”
The child can answer yes or no, this is a closed question.
Children don’t have a chance to think outside the box.

If the child has known the cat this animal, mom and dad can ask: “what is this small animal ah?”
The child replied, “It’s a kitten.”
Mom and dad asked: “What color is the cat?”
The child replied, “Yellow.”
Mom and Dad can continue to ask, “What is the yellow cat doing?”
The child would observe and reply, “The yellow cat is chasing its tail around in circles.”

Open-ended questions can bring a series of divergent thinking to children, which can promote the improvement of children’s cognitive and understanding ability.
Parents and friends can try more.

The contest father said:

The training of children’s cognitive understanding ability should also start from interest, constantly improve children’s cognition in games, and guide children to diverge their thinking.

I hope that through the persistence of parents and continuous scientific intervention training, children’s cognitive and understanding ability can be improved!

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