Covid is still slowing down, with all indicators falling: according to the bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità relating to the week between 8 and 14 February 2024 there are 2,223 new infections with a variation of -25 .7% compared to the previous week (n: 2,992), 92 victims, down 3.2% compared to the previous week (n: 95), the positivity rate is 1.6% with a change of – 0.5% compared to the previous week (2.1%). The employment rate in the medical area as of 14 February 2024 is equal to 2.4% (1,486 hospitalized) compared to 2.9% (1,792 hospitalized) on 7 February and that in intensive care is equal to 0.8% (67 hospitalized ) compared to 1.0% (87 hospitalized) on February 7. The number of swabs carried out also decreased: 135,631 with a change of -5.1% compared to seven days ago (n: 142,934).
“The data to date highlight an epidemiological situation that good prevention actions have determined.” Thus the general director of Health Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Francesco Vaia, in the note accompanying the bulletin on the progress of the epidemiological situation from Covid-19. “In an increasingly logic of prevention of the phenomena that climate change and globalization can also induce – he continues – the Ministry of Health is accentuating prevention action to ensure that diseases, such as for example the Dengue, which today do not cause any alarm but require due attention.”
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