On the issue of the count of patients hospitalized for causes other than Covid and test positive and asymptomatic, the Ministry of Health, in a note, makes it known that “with regard to today’s press rumors about changes to the count of hospitalized patients that no formal act has been ordered at the moment by the Ministry of Health. Without prejudice to what was recognized yesterday by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, dialogue with the Regions is obviously always open “.
Patients admitted to hospital for causes other than Covid who test positive for the SasrCoV2 virus, but asymptomatic, if assigned in isolation to the ward of the disease, will be counted as a ‘case’ Covid but will not be counted among the hospitalizations of the disease. Covid Medical Area. This without prejudice to the principle of separation of paths and patient safety. The new circular of the Ministry of Health provides for this, which accepts the requests of the Regions in this sense.
Meanwhile, according to the data of Agenas, already from Monday, however, Calabria, which has the intensive at 20% and the ordinary departments at 38%, Piedmont, respectively 23% and 33%, and Sicily could pass in orange., which has 20% resuscitations and 33% Covid wards. But if the trend is not reversed, the next few weeks will see another 10 regions change color: Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Marche, the province of Trento, Tuscany and Veneto have exceeded the 20% threshold in the intensive while Liguria, Umbria Lombardia, and Valle d’Aosta are already over 30% of employment in the Covid departments.
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