Bologna, 18 June 2021 – By the end of the summer in Emilia Romagna “The threshold of 70% of citizens who have been injected at least the first dose will be reached with reasonable certainty”. This was announced by the regional councilor Raffaele Donini: with over 2.2 million citizens having the first dose (55.1% of the target) and 1.15 million fully immunized with two doses, we are “past the halfway point,” he says.
Rt index stable in Italy at 0.69. Emilia Romagna, Marche and Veneto at low risk
I contagion in Emilia Romagna, and the ratio of new positives to tests also decreases. The covid bulletin today, june 18th, register 71 almost (yesterday 89) out of 22,500 swabs processed in the last 24 hours, 0.3%. Unfortunately there are 6 other victims, but the pressure continues to drop hospitals of the region: patients hospitalized in intensive care there are 40 (-9 compared to yesterday), 246 in the other Covid departments (-8).
Friday is also the day when the national control room meets. The monitoring data certify a progressive improvement of the situation in Emilia Romagna, where theweekly incidence 15.9 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants are expected (data updated yesterday, June 17), lower than the Italian average, which is 16.7.
National data Covid infections today, the bulletin of 18 June on the Coronavirus in Italy and in the regions
Summary
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus epidemic, they have registered in Emilia Romagna 386,099 cases of positivity. In the last 24 hours, 8,506 molecular swabs were carried out, for a total of 4,916,799. In addition, there are also 13,994 quick swabs.
Of the 71 new cases, 29 are asymptomatic identified in the context of regional contact tracing and screening activities. Overall, among the new positives 28 were already in isolation at the time of swab execution, 37 were identified within already known foci.
L’middle age of today’s new positives is 33.9 years.
Of the 29 asymptomatic, 19 were identified thanks to the activity of contact tracing, 8 through the tests for risk categories introduced by the Region, none with serological screenings, 1 through pre-hospitalization tests. For 1 case the epidemiological investigation is still ongoing.
Unfortunately, they register 6 new deaths: one in the province of Piacenza (a 96-year-old woman), two in the province of Modena (83-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy); one in the province of Bologna (a 56-year-old man), one in the Ferrara area (an 88-year-old man), and one in the province of Rimini (an 87-year-old woman). No deaths in all other provinces.
In total, since the beginning of the epidemic there have been 13,245 deaths in the region.
The situation of infections in the provinces can be seen Bologna with 16 new cases, followed by Parma (11) e Ravenna (10), Cesena (6); then Piacenza, Reggio Emilia e Forlì, all with 5 cases; then Modena, the Imolese district, Rimini (with 4 cases each), and finally Ferrara (1).
The cases of positivity in the area since the beginning of the epidemic, which refer to the province in which the diagnosis was made, are distributed as follows: 22,607 a Piacenza (+5 compared to yesterday, of which 1 symptomatic), 28,439 a Parma (+11, none of which symptomatic), 46.881 a Reggio Emilia (+5, of which 4 symptomatic), 65,603 a Modena (+4, all with symptoms), 82,289 a Bologna (+16, of which 14 symptomatic), 12,641 cases a Imola (+4, none symptomatic), 23,168 a Ferrara (+1, symptomatic), 30,505 a Ravenna (+10, of which 9 symptomatic), 17,064 a Forlì (+5, of which 4 symptomatic), 19,667 a Cesena (+6, of which 3 symptomatic) and 36,235 a Rimini (+4, of which 2 symptomatic).
As for people as a whole heal, they are 309 more than yesterday and reach 366,860.
I active cases, that is the actual patients, to date are 5,994 (-244 compared to yesterday). Of these, people in isolation at home, or those with mild symptoms who do not require hospital treatment or are symptom-free, are 5,708 (-227), 95.2% of the total number of active cases.
The patients hospitalized in intensive care there are 40 (-9 compared to yesterday), 246 those in other Covid departments (-8).
On the territory, patients admitted to intensive care are distributed as follows: none a Piacenza (like yesterday), 4 y Parma (-1), 4 a Reggio Emilia (number unchanged from yesterday), 8 a Modena (-2), 15 a Bologna (-6), 1 a Imola (unchanged), 2 y Ferrara (unchanged), none a Ravenna e Forlì (like yesterday), 2 y Cesena (unchanged) and 4 y Rimini (unchanged).
Meanwhile continue the anti-Covid vaccination campaign, also extended to under 40. In Emilia Romagna, in fact, in recent days, reservations have opened with staggered windows for children between 12 and 19 years old, for 30-39 year olds and for 25-29 year olds. From Wednesday, June 16, open agendas for 20-24 year olds, with the possibility of booking which will always remain open from the date the windows are unlocked, to allow all those who wish to receive the vaccine.
At 2 pm they were administered in total 3,372,872 doses; out of the total, 1,193,396 people have completed the vaccination cycle.
In Emilia Romagna the cases of Delta variant “there are very few”, but “obviously sequencing is needed”. He says it Stefano Bonaccini, interviewed this morning at Agorà on Raitre. “The number of infections here continues to drop in the overall number and the cases of the Delta variant are very few and the vaccinations are going very well”, Bonaccini reports. As for the vaccination campaign “yesterday we exceeded three million and 350,000 doses, I had estimated to reach 3.5 million doses at the end of June, I think we could even stand at 3.7-3.8 million because yesterday we did 45,000 administrations per day “.
By the end of the weekend, therefore, the governor still reckons, “we should have 1.2 million vaccinated definitively, we have another million who took the first dose and will soon make the second and then we have almost 600,000 booked in the windows opened in recent days between the ages of 12 and 39 “. Now, Bonaccini concludes,” we will invest and insist on booking everyone who can, but the pace is going very well. “
Stefano Bonaccini invites the Emilia-Romagna to “continue to respect the anti-Covid rules”, even if the masks outdoors. “I think that soon outdoors, from what I read, the masks can be removed by a government decision, the responsibility and sacrifices we have been forced to pay, along with the vaccine“, says the regional president, today at the Rizzoli di Bologna for the 125th anniversary of the birth of the orthopedic institute. On the sidelines of the day, Bonaccini lists the downward numbers of the pandemic and upward of vaccinations. Of course, the number of victims “until it is permanent zero will not leave us in peace”.
For what concern green pass “I think it is a useful tool, I have always said it – recalls Bonaccini – so that you can travel and ensure maximum presence for your holidays in complete safety. The accommodation facilities in this region say that there are many reservations and we hope that one of the most dramatically affected sectors, tourism, can start again and as well as possible “.
On the farewell to masks at least outdoors, the Regional Health Councilor, Raffaele Donini, distrusts the political tug-of-war and instead totally relies on the green light of scientists. “When the scientific community deems it appropriate to promote this measure, because the level of immunization will be high and the incidence of cases will be decreased, I will be happy to adapt. But I tend to rely on the scientific community and not on the political debate”, Donini underlines.
There are 200,315 tests carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy. The day before yesterday there were 203,173. Now the positivity rate is 0,7%, slightly higher than the day before yesterday when it was at 0.6 per cent.
There are 444 patients admitted to intensive care for the Covid in Italy, with a decline of 27 units in 24 hours. THE hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 2,888, a decrease of 176 units compared to the previous twenty-four hours.
From over 3,300 intensive therapies to the current 444; from 24 thousand ordinary hospitalizations to the current 2,888. In two months the Italian hospitals have (almost) emptied themselves of the sick Covid. Today, for both, the rate has dropped to 5%. In the afternoon, the Ministry of Health and Civil Protection will publish the updated data: you will find them here in real time.
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