July 18, 2022 5:22 pm
The positivity rate was 23% (+ 0.2%). There are 42,594 healed today. Intensive care (+14) and hospitalizations (+272) are on the rise
The situation of admissions
– Currently, as reported by the Ministry of Health, there are 417 patients admitted to intensive care in our country; there are 41 daily admissions. There are 10,848 people admitted to ordinary wards. In total, 20,177,910 have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic.
The discharged and healed are 18,553,478.
“Passed the peak in Italy”
– The new wave of Covid pushed by Omicron’s BA.5 sub-variant has passed its peak in Italy, with cases falling for five consecutive days. The analyzes of the physicist Giorgio Sestili reveal this. “The peak seems to have passed – he said – and the cases show a reduction of 14% in one week”.