With a national incidence of cases per 100 thousand inhabitants which goes from 25 to 17 and the RT which goes from 0.68 to 0.69, the weekly monitoring and care of the ISS examined this morning from the control room brings all of Italy in white except for the small Valle d’Aosta, which will have to wait another week before entering the color range and almost everything reopens. As usual, during the day the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, will sign the ordinances that from next Monday will promote 6 other regions in the white band: Tuscany, Marche, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, and Alto Adige.
The only index with an almost imperceptible rise is that of contagion, that is the RT, “but with such a low incidence of cases the movements of that indicator are not very significant”, the technicians of the control room observe.
All the Regions are however well below the threshold of 50 cases per week which allows you to remain in the area where practically only the discos do not reopen and distancing remains to be respected and, it is not known for how long, the obligation to wear a mask both indoors and outdoors. ‘Open. There are 3 regions that are under an incidence of cases even lower than 10: Liguria (6), Molise (9) and Sardinia (8). A sign that even if the most insidious Delta variant were starting to spread throughout the country, it would not have started to produce its effects in terms of recovery of the epidemic curve.
In the week 9-15 June 2021, compared to the previous one, there was a decrease in new cases (11,440 against 15,288) and deaths (411 against 469). Currently positive cases are also decreasing (105,906 vs 181,726), people in home isolation (102,069 vs 176,353), hospitalizations with symptoms (3,333 vs 4,685) and intensive care (504 vs 688). In addition, deaths have also been steadily decreasing for 9 weeks, reaching an average of 59 per day in the last week. In the last 5 weeks, the number of people tested fell by 31.5%, from 3,247,816 to 2,223,782.
The decline in cases has now persisted for 13 consecutive weeks, but as pointed out by the president of the Gimbe Foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, “the progressive decrease in testing underestimates the number of new cases and documents the failure to resume contact tracing, which is fundamental in this phase of the pandemic ”.
Even the decline in intensive care occupied by Covid-19 patients, which is only 5% of those available in Italy, does not stop, after having exceeded the alert threshold of 30% for weeks, now no longer reached by anyone. region. The places occupied by Covid patients in the ward also drop to 5%, also in this case with all regions below the alert threshold of 40%. This is what emerges instead from the monitoring, relative to June 16, carried out by Agenas, the National Agency for regional health services.
All signs that would suggest a more serene summer, were it not for those clouds that threaten new storms from Great Britain.