There are 5,636 Covid test positives identified in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 4,200. Instead, there are 31 victims in one day (yesterday there were 22).
There are 241,766 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 102,864. The positivity rate is 2.33%, down from 4% yesterday.
There are 322 patients hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, one less than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses. The daily admissions, according to data from the Ministry of Health, are 26. Patients with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 2,880, +4 compared to yesterday.
The employment rate of intensive care by Covid patients increases by 1% in 4 regions: Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Lombardy and Tuscany. Even the national value, after weeks of stability, marks + 1%, reaching 4%. This is what emerges from the monitoring of the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas), which compares the data of 9 August with those of the day before. Sardinia is stable at 11%, above the 10% threshold, one of the new parameters for color change. On the other hand, a minus sign for the Pa di Trento which returns to 0.
This, in detail, is the occupancy rate of intensive care places in the individual regions by patients with Covid-19: Abruzzo (1%), Basilicata (1%), Calabria (2%), Campania (3%) , Emilia Romagna (+ 1%, reaches 4%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (1%), Lazio (+ 1%, reaches 7%), Liguria (7%), Lombardy (+ 1%, reaches 3% ), Marche (3%), Molise (3%), PA of Bolzano (2%), PA of Trento (-1%, reaches 0%), Piedmont (1%), Puglia (3%), Sardinia ( 11%, over the 10% threshold), Sicily (7%), Tuscany (+1, reaches 5 %%), Umbria (1%), Valle d’Aosta (0%) and Veneto (2%).
The occupancy rate of beds by Covid patients in the non-critical area wards of hospitals remains at 5% at national level. But there are 7 regions that see an increase of 1%: Abruzzo (reaches 4%), Campania (7%), Emilia Romagna (5%), Lazio (7%), Molise (2%) , Puglia (4%) and Sicily, which reaches 14% just below the 15% threshold, indicated as one of the parameters for the color change of the regions. While the Veneto sees a decline of 1%. This is what emerges from the daily monitoring of the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas) relating to 9 August.
The number of weekly infections from Sars-Cov-2 per 100,000 inhabitants, relating to the week 2-8 August, is 68.91 at the national level, an increase compared to the 63.65 recorded from 26 July to 1 August. But three regions exceed 100: Sardinia (142.03), Tuscany (119.73) and Sicily (104.55). This was noted by the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas), in a new section of the daily monitoring, just published online, dedicated to one of the indicators provided for in the new parameters that determine the transition to the yellow zone of the regions.
“Those in charge of intensive care tell us that almost all of their Covid patients, 90%, are not vaccinated, and this confirms that the vaccine is the most effective weapon at our disposal to counter the pandemic and its worst effects. ” He explains it Giovanni Migliore, President of the Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospitals (FIASO). “The alarm about the resumption of hospitalizations, some serious requiring resuscitation, confirms the need not to let our guard down and to continue the vaccination campaign”.