Covid: Gimbe report, ‘contagion slows down but tampons drop’

Rome, April 8 (beraking latest news Salute) – “A reduction in new cases (-11.1%) overestimated by the collapse of the people tested”. This is what the monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation records in the week of March 31-April 6. Furthermore, according to the report, “deaths, currently positive cases and people in home isolation are slightly down”. “The slowness with which new cases come down – says Renata Gili, Head of Research on Health Services of the Gimbe Foundation – together with the limited vaccination coverage of the most fragile subjects, do not allow to reduce the pressure on hospitals, where the situation remains critical”.

“For the third consecutive week – declares Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation – the slow decline of new cases continues, even if the decline in the last few days is overestimated due to the collapse of the testing activity during the Easter period: -128.141 people tested compared to the previous week and -304,499 compared to the one before “.

If at national level the percentage variation of new cases and the currently positive cases “are decreasing”, remarks the Gimbe Foundation, “the percentage variation of new cases grows in 4 Regions, in particular in Sicily and Sardinia where the increase exceeds 50 %. In 10 Regions, finally, the increase in currently positive cases unequivocally attests that the decline in new cases is still small “, underline the experts.