There are 8,512 new Covid cases registered in Italy in the last 24 hours, compared to 15,082 yesterday and above all 7,537 last Monday. For some days the infections have been higher than in the previous week: they could be normal fluctuations or the beginning of a small recovery.
The processed swabs are 75,010 (yesterday 123,699) with the positivity rate falling from 12.2% to 11.3%.
The deaths are 70 (yesterday 27). The total casualties since the beginning of the pandemic thus rise to 167,019. Intensive therapies are one less (yesterday unchanged) with 12 daily admissions, and there are 217 in all. In the ordinary wards there are instead 42 more patients (yesterday -31), for a total of 4,453. This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
The region with the highest number of cases today is Lazio with 1,369 infections, followed by Emilia-Romagna (+960), Lombardy (+893), Sicily (+756) and Puglia (+631).
Total cases since the start of the pandemic come to 17,514,589. The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are 18,625 (yesterday 15,938) for a total that rises to 16,716,222. The currently positive are 10,079 less (yesterday -443) for a total that drops to 631,348. Of these, 626,678 are in home isolation.
Gimbe: “Omicron subvariants more contagious, but don’t worry”
“Omicron sub-variants do not worry at the moment, they are more contagious but hospitalizations do not increase” Thus Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation. On the sub-variant ba-5 Cartabellotta explains that “in our report we have taken into consideration the various sub-variants of omicron which are a little more transmissible by about 10-15% and show a greater evasion of vaccine protection. At the moment for Italy it is not we have official data. The data coming from South Africa are comforting because the data on infections is increasing, but this has no consequences in hospitals “. Finally, on vaccinations, he stresses that “we only have data on the over 50s, at this time of low viral circulation many are postponing the fourth dose, but there is an increase in deaths for the over 80s. For the general population it is a bet to say today if an annual dose of vaccine is needed. We await further studies to plan the autumn vaccination campaign. “
Lazio councilor: “Beware of Omicron 5, give us the vaccines”
“Covid cases are decreasing but let’s look carefully at Omicron 5, which is more widespread for now, which could lead to an increase in the curve for the autumn. This is why we ask for the updated vaccines that should have been ready for months to arrive soon”. Thus the councilor for health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato.