Today’s bulletin, January 21, records 179,106 new cases of contagion and 373 deaths.
The contagion curve no longer rises. Today 179,106 cases against 188,797 yesterday with a more or less equal number of tampons, while the dead remain many, even today 373. There are 9 more beds occupied in intensive care but 174 are released in the medical departments.
In Piedmont, cases slightly down from 15,328 to 14,675, while the deaths are 25, six less than yesterday.
Infections also fell slightly in Lombardy, today 32,677 against 33,676 yesterday, but the death toll remains high: 121 still today after 131 yesterday.
Covid infections are slightly decreasing today in Veneto: they are 19,117 against 21,833 yesterday. The total of positive cases rises to 975,213. The victims are 26 more, which brings the total to 12,888 since the start of the pandemic. Slight decrease in hospital data, with 1,765 (-41) hospitalizations in the medical area and 203 (-1) in intensive care.
Infections in South Tyrol are substantially stable, today 2,889, 101 less than yesterday but with fewer tampons, while there is an extra bed occupied in intensive care.
On the other hand, cases are falling in Friuli Venezia Giulia, where today there are 4,712 against the 5,238 of yesterday.
There are 13,049 new cases of Coronavirus registered in the 24 hours in Tuscany on 72,849 tests of which 21,874 molecular swabs and 50,975 rapid tests. The rate of new positives is 17.91% (75.6% on first diagnoses). Compared to yesterday, the number of infections is slightly lower (there were 13,720), compared to a smaller number of tests (there were 78,441), and the positivity rate has slightly increased (it was 17.49%).
Infections in Lazio rose from 13,423 to 15,314, where 5 extra beds occupied in intensive care and 26 deaths.
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Abruzzo, Friuli, Piedmont and Sicily in orange, Puglia and Sardinia in yellow
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in the light of the weekly monitoring data, has signed a new ordinance which provides for the passage of Abruzzo, FVG, Piedmont and Sicily in orange. Puglia and Sardinia in yellow.
«We see a start of stabilization of the curve. The Rt index is also down, a slowdown is noted compared to the previous weeks, even if the regions have difficulty in promptly uploading the data given the high number of new cases. There is growth in all the Regions, but some have a slight countertrend »said the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro, in a video commenting on the weekly monitoring data.
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Funds for the Regions and compensation
Another 400 million arrive for Covid expenses of the Regions to cope with the fourth wave and for the vaccination campaign. It is learned from government sources. The intervention would have been strongly requested by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.
The fund is also on the way, financed with 50 million in 2022 and 100 in 2023, for compensation for any damage related to anti-Covid vaccines: it is one of the innovations that emerged during the control room on Covid bills and supports. The measure should enter the decree. The question of compensation had already been raised in recent weeks by the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti who, according to what is learned, would have expressed satisfaction with the implementation of the measure together with colleagues from the Lega Erika Stefani and Massimo Garavaglia.
The new contributions for the transport sector, still penalized by the Covid emergency, are also in the pipeline. For local public transport, the draft of the new Supports bill allocates 80 million for additional services “planned in order to cope with the effects deriving from the limitations placed on the filling coefficient of the means” and, if in excess, also for the activities of control on board the vehicles. For private buses, instead, a fund of 15 million has been set up at Mims. In the railway sector, 10 million a year are allocated to RFI from 2022 to 2034 to reduce the fee for using the network by other operators.
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Mandatory green pass also to collect the pension
In the Dpcm signed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, however, there is no specific exemption from the obligation of a green pass to collect the pension in post offices. The standard was not present when the text arrived at Palazzo Chigi but had then been examined and taken into consideration in recent days by government technicians.
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Doctors and nurses
Covid-19 cases among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers continue to grow rapidly, driven by the Omicron variant. In the last 30 days there have been 47,607 against 3,412,930 overall cases of Sars-Cov-2 infection in Italy. This is what emerges from the data of the integrated Covid-19 surveillance in Italy, by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, updated as of January 20. The data from a week ago, updated to January 13, reported 2,432,925 total cases in the population recorded in the previous 30 days and, of these, 34,446 among health professionals.
“It is necessary to change the parameters of a changing pandemic,” suggests Massimiliano Fedriga, the president of the Fvg Region and the Regions Conference, on the sidelines of a donation from Despar to the Burlo Garofolo Hospital. “The yellow and orange zone must be eliminated, overcome by the decrees put in place and I also think that we must change the way we approach the pandemic”. Fedriga appeals to “common sense”: to think of “tackling the pandemic as it was two years ago would be a failure. Hospitals must be protected and people convinced to get vaccinated. Let’s not waste our precious healthcare workforce on unnecessary tampons.
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