The occupation of intensive care by Covid patients, on a daily basis, drops in 8 regions and none exceeds 10%, while it is stable at 5% in Italy, compared to 36% reached exactly one year ago. L’occupation of the places in the departments of non-critical area, on the other hand, on 16 March 2021 it reached 40% while it is currently stable at 13% in Italy, but with higher values in some regions of the Center-South, such as Calabria (at 30%), Umbria (25 %), Basilicata (24%), Sicily (23%) and Sardinia (21%). Agenas data of 16 March 2022 indicate this. In detail, according to the monitoring of the National Agency for regional health services, on a daily basis, the employment of intensive care by patients with Covid-19 decreases in 8 regions: Basilicata (3%), Lazio (7%), Marche (3%), Piedmont (3%), Puglia (4%), Tuscany (5%), Valle d’Aosta (0%) and Veneto (2%) ). Instead, it is stable in 13 regions or autonomous provinces: Abruzzo (7%), Calabria (8%), Campania (6%), Emilia Romagna (6%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (5%), Liguria (5%) ), Lombardy (4%), Molise (5%), Pa Bolzano (3%), Pa Trento (2%), Sardinia (9%), Sicily (7%), Umbria (5%).
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The occupation of the beds in the hospital wards of medical area (called non-critical) by patients with Covid-19, daily drops in 7 regions: Abruzzo (20%), Emilia Romagna (11%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (10%), Liguria (14%), Molise (11%), Public Administration of Bolzano (11%) and Valle d’Aosta (9%). While it grows in 5: Basilicata (24%), Campania (14%), Marche (16%), Pa Trento (7%), Sardinia (21%). It is stable in the remaining 9: Calabria (30%), Lazio (16%), Lombardy (8%), Piedmont (9%), Puglia (19%), Sicily (23%), Tuscany (13%), Umbria ( 25%) and Veneto (7%).
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The Covid infection curve, on the other hand, continues to grow at a rapid pace in Puglia, for the second consecutive week, according to the monitoring of the Gimbe foundation, there was an increase in cases of 37.7%, with the province of Lecce which , once again, marks the record in Italy of new positives with 1,423 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. Furthermore, in the week from 9 to 15 March, in Puglia the currently positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants almost doubled, going to 2138. Above the saturation threshold the beds in the medical area, equal to 18.8%, while they are below the threshold of saturation of beds in intensive care, equal to 5.4%. In addition to the province of Lecce, there has been an increase in new cases per 100 thousand residents in all territories: in the Bari area 789 have been detected, in the Brindisi area 737, in the Foggiano 733, in the province of Taranto 696 and in the Bat 665.