In all regions except Molise there is a percentage increase in new cases and in 40 provinces the incidence exceeds 50 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. Three Provinces have over 150 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants: Caltanissetta (272), Cagliari (257) and Ragusa (193). Furthermore, the virus “circulates more than documented by the new cases identified”, declares Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation, “due to insufficient testing activity and the failure to resume contact tracing, made increasingly difficult by increase in positives “.
In fact, in the face of a surge in the positive / persons tested ratio (from 1.8% in the week of June 30-July 6 to 9.1% in the week of July 21-27), the average number of new cases has decreased ‘last week. Finally, a slight increase in hospitalizations is confirmed, documenting the hospital impact of the Delta variant: the number of beds occupied by Covid patients in the medical area went from 1,088 on 16 July to 1,611 on 27 July and that of intensive care from 151 in July 14 to the 189 of July 27, even if the percentages remain low, with all the Regions recording much lower values than 15% for the medical area and 10% for the critical area.
More than 2 million over 60s without even a single dose
There are 2.06 million, equal to 11.5% of those over 60 who have not yet received even a dose with significant regional differences (from 19.9% in Sicily to 6.4% in Puglia) and 1.11 million ( 6.2%) are waiting to complete the cycle with the second dose.
Three million students between 12 and 19 years to be vaccinated Of the more than 4.5 million people between the ages of 12 and 19, just over 670,000 (14.7%) completed the vaccination course and nearly 765,000 (16.8%) received the first dose only. Therefore, in this age group 68.5%, that is 3.121.710, is still totally uncovered, however with very significant regional differences, ranging from 85.9% in Umbria to 61.4% in Abruzzo.