There are 48,483 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 60,191. The victims are 156 instead (yesterday there were 184). v There are 433,961 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 531,194. The positivity rate is 11.17%, stable from 11.3% yesterday. On the other hand, 563 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 29 fewer than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions are 43. The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are 8,575, or 201 less than yesterday.
In Italy, the occupancy of beds in non-critical area hospital wards by patients with Covid-19 still drops by one percentage point daily. The value in Italy thus returns to 13% while exactly one year ago it continued to rise, reaching 34%. Employment in intensive care units is currently stable at 6%, which a year ago instead saw a growing trend reaching 30%. This is indicated by the monitoring data of the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agents), updated on 8 March 2022, compared with those of 8 March 2021.
Covid hospitalizations still drop by 16.2% in a week: this emerges from the survey in sentinel hospitals Fiaso (Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospitals) of 8 March. The hospitalization curve, which began to decline from February 1, recorded the sharpest decline in the fourth wave on March 1, at 21.6%. In the hospitals of the North, the decline in admissions in the last week was equal to 15%, while in the South and in the islands the curve has bent by 19%. In the facilities of the Center, patients were reduced by 14%.
In the last week the admissions of pediatric patients monitored in the four pediatric hospitals and in the pediatric wards of the sentinel hospitals of the Fiaso network decreased: the percentage of hospitalizations fell by 15% in one week. 59% are between 0 and 4 years old, 18% between 5 and 11 years old, 23% between 12 and 18 years old. In particular, newborns, from 0 to 6 months, make up 36% of the total. The number of cases of small patients hospitalized with both parents not vaccinated is 37%.
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