Covid, the weekly monitoring: in Sicily numbers from the white zone

PALERMO – Sicily should become a white zone on June 21, but on the epidemic front the island already has numbers from a white range. “The week just ended has recorded very favorable data in terms of reduction of new positives, of hospitalized and deceased, even if the number of new admissions to intensive care has increased compared to the previous week” said today Girolamo D’Anneo. head of the Statistics office of the municipality of Palermo.

“In particular, in the week just ended the new positives in Sicily were 1,973, 25.8% less than in the previous week, when there was a decrease of 6.3%. It is the lowest weekly increase since last October. The number of current positives is 7,971, 1,912 fewer than the previous week. There were 7,545 people in home isolation, 1,789 fewer than the previous week. The hospitalized are 426, of which 44 in intensive care. Compared to the previous week they decreased by 123 units (ICU patients decreased by 21 units) !.

«In the week that has just ended, there were 14 new admissions to intensive care (+ 27.3% compared to 11 the previous week). The number of healed (213680) increased by 3831 units compared to the previous week. The percentage of healed out of the total positive is equal to 93.9% (it was 93.0% last Sunday). The number of deaths recorded in the week is equal to 54 (last week 80). Overall, the dead people are 5873, and the lethality rate (deaths / total positive) is equal to 2.6% (as last Sunday). The total hospitalized represent 5.3% of the current positives (the hospitalized in intensive care 0.6%) », he concludes.