New Covid infections recorded in the last 24 hours have dropped to 69,204. Yesterday there were 87,940. And the decline is also compared to the figure of seven days ago when the infections were about 4 thousand more. The victims are 131, down from the 186 recorded yesterday.
There are 1,248,806 people currently positive for Covid, 14,140 more in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. A total of 16,349,788 Italians have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic, while the dead have risen to 163,244. The discharged and healed are 14,937,738, with an increase of 55,773 compared to yesterday. There are 441,526 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 554,526. The positivity rate is 15.7%, down slightly from 15.8% yesterday. There are 382 patients admitted to intensive care, 12 fewer than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. Daily admissions are 46. There are 10,076 hospitalized in ordinary wards, or 79 fewer than yesterday.
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Covid infections still on rather high numbers in Veneto in the last 24 hours. There are 6,948 cases of positivity registered (yesterday there were 9,666), and 9 victims. The most worrying data, however, concerns the increase in hospitalizations: there are 27 more patients in the medical departments, for a total of 939 beds occupied, while 37 stable ones in intensive care. New cases of Covid in fall from 5,973 to 3,718 Piedmont in the daily update published by the Region. The positivity rate is 12.4%, with the result of 29,978 diagnostic swabs of which 27,163 antigen tests. The number of people admitted to ordinary wards fell by -20, totaling 785, while there were 19 patients in intensive care, one more than yesterday. Three deaths.
There are 3,763 new cases of Coronavirus in Tuscany in 24 hours a day, 524 tests of which 3,839 molecular swabs and 20,685 rapid tests. The rate of new positives is 15.34% (74.6% on first diagnoses). Compared to yesterday, cases are decreasing (they were 5,653), compared to a lower number of tests (they were 35,248), and the positivity rate has slightly decreased (it was 16.04%). In the Lazio the new positives are 6,351, 2,341 less than yesterday and the cases in high altitude in Rome are 3,143. There are also 16 deaths, 7 fewer than yesterday, while 19 beds3 are released in the medical wards and 2 more hospitalized in intensive care.
Today in Puglia 4,293 new cases of Coronavirus infection are recorded against 8,030 yesterday while three have died. Of the 105,449 currently positive, 557 are hospitalized in a non-critical area (yesterday 568) and 23 in intensive care (yesterday 28).
After last week’s sharp decline, new cases are rising again of Covid-19 in Italy. From 20 to 26 April they were 22.7% more than the previous week, going from 353,193 to 433,321. There are 11 provinces with an incidence exceeding 1000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and in all the Regions there is a percentage increase in new cases: from + 2.9% in Piedmont to + 44.8% in Basilicata. This was revealed by the new monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation.
The swabs carried out they pass from 2,294,395 in the week of April 13-19 to 2,563,195 in the week of April 20-26, with a growth of 11.7%.
Intensive care is slightly down (-3.1%), while ordinary hospitalizations are stable (+ 1.1%). But the deaths are over one thousand (+ 20.1%) “. “After the sharp decline last week – explains Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation – the new weekly cases are back on the rise (+ 22.7%), which amount to 433 thousand with a 7-day moving average that touches the 62 thousand cases, compared to an increase in total tampons of 11.7% “. «The data show that the circulation of the virus, already very high, is even increasing compared to last week. The average of new cases per day has risen to almost 62,000, the molecular positivity rate has exceeded 18% and the number of positives, largely underestimated, exceeds 1.23 million. With these numbers, if it is reasonable to send the green pass to the attic that has exhausted its role as a ‘gentle push’ to vaccinate, it would be folly to abolish the obligation to wear a mask in indoor venues, especially if crowded or poorly ventilated, and on public transport », always states Cartabellotta.
The fourth dose of the Covid vaccine it was administered only to 13% of the immunosuppressed and to 2.8% of the over 80, frail elderly and guests of the Rsa. Percentages that show a “struggling” campaign and describe a “resounding flop”. To describe it like this, on the basis of data updated to April 27 (6 am) is still President Gimbe. 88.1% of the population received at least one dose and 86.5% completed the vaccination course. There are 6.89 million unvaccinated, of which 2.75 million recovered, protected only temporarily. While the third dose was taken by 84% and 1.8 million are candidates to receive it immediately.
As of April 27 (6 am), 104,049 fourth immunosuppressed doses have been administered. Based on the official audience made up of over 791,000 people, the national coverage rate is 13.1% with clear regional differences: from 2.5% in Calabria to 47.8% in Piedmont. Among the over 80s, frail patients aged between 60 and 79 years and guests of the RSAs (in all about 4.4 million people), 122,041 fourth doses were administered and the national coverage rate is 2.8% with clear differences regional: from 0.6% of Umbria to 5.3% of Emilia-Romagna.
“The sensational flop of the fourth doses in immunocompromised people – comments the president Gimbe Nino Cartabellotta – must make the institutions think, especially considering the further extension of the audience to another 4.2 million people among whom the administrations are struggling”. First of all, he continues, «an incisive information campaign is needed both to raise awareness among the population at risk of serious illness on the effectiveness of the second booster, and to counteract the general sense of ‘tiredness’ with regard to the vaccination campaign. But the information must be integrated – he concludes – with active call strategies, given that the ASLs have all the data of the people included in the audience ».
As for the third doses, 39,288,115 were administered with a national coverage of 84.1% but with clear regional differences: from 79.1% in Sicily to 88.4% in Valle D’Aosta. 7.41 million people have not yet received the third dose, of which: 1.83 million candidates to receive it immediately and 5.58 million recovered for less than 120 days who cannot receive it immediately.
Finally, in the 5-11 year range 1,382,985 received at least 1 dose of vaccine (of which 1,253,014 completed the vaccination cycle), with a national coverage rate of 37.8% and clear regional differences: from 20, 5% of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano to 53.7% of Puglia.
“In all other workplaces”, excluding those in the health sector and hospitals, “without distinction between public and private, the mask will only be strongly recommended”. This is what the Undersecretary of State for Health Andrea Costa (Noi Con l’italia) declares, on the sidelines of the work of the Twelfth Commission, in which he participated as a representative of the Government. “With the approval in the Chamber of Commerce of the amendment to the last Covid decree in March, the obligation to use masks ends practically everywhere, except for some areas”.
Modern Meanwhile, he asks the American Food and Drug Administration for authorization to use his vaccine for Covid in children under six. The request came after a study showed that the vaccine safely induces an immune response in babies. The American media reported it.