++ Intensive therapies -10, ordinary hospitalizations on the rise +144 ROME (ANSA) – ROME, 22 JUN – 53,905 new infections from Covid registered in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 62,704. The victims are instead 50, down from 62 yesterday. A total of 246,512 swabs were performed, including antigenic and molecular, with the positivity rate of 21.8%, stable compared to 21.4% yesterday. On the other hand, 216 patients are admitted to intensive care, 10 fewer than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions are 36. The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are 4,947, or 144 more than yesterday
The hospitalizations for Covid in pediatric agewhile remaining limited, they have more than doubled. This is what emerges from the weekly survey of 21 June in the four sentinel hospitals and in the pediatric wards belonging to the Fiaso network. Most of the patients are very young children (infants between 0 and 6 months which in a week have almost tripled from 5 to 14 patients) towards whom prudent attitudes can facilitate the recourse to hospitalization. For the first time in 5 weeks, there is a hospitalization in intensive care for Covid. This is a class 5-11 male with no comorbidities.
Meanwhile, the curve of Covid hospitalizations concerning adults it appears flat. After the gradual slowdown of the previous weeks, the survey of 21 June shows a halt to this reduction and substantial stability. In resuscitation, 100% of the vaccinated have other pathologies, while only 27% of frail subjects received the fourth dose.
The weekly variations of Covid patients, both in the ordinary wards and in the intensive care units are minimal: in the period 14-21 June there is a decrease of only 2 hospitalized in the 20 hospitals belonging to the network of the Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospitals.
However, the geographical analysis of hospitalizations shows that in the South the curve continues to decline (-8.8%), in the North it has a very slight rise (2.1%), while in the Center it has reversed direction and has grown (10.8 %). Among those hospitalized in intensive care for Covid or with respiratory and pulmonary syndromes, 37% are not vaccinated; among the vaccinated, on the other hand, almost all of them for over 4 months now, 100% are affected by comorbidities. “The increase in the circulation of the virus with the new variant – declares Giovanni Migliore, president of Fiaso – has determined a setback in the reduction of hospitalizations that we must carefully monitor and which may lead to a slight increase in the coming weeks, as is already happened in some regions “. And he adds: “It should be emphasized, however, that there are still 10 million Italians who have not received the third vaccination dose: the population subjected to the primary vaccination cycle is about 52 million while only 42 million have joined the additional dose. lower for the fourth booster dose intended for the elderly and the most frail: only 27% of the audience of those to whom it is recommended underwent vaccination “.