“The new cases registered in Tuscany are 765 out of 13,787 tests of which 9,006 molecular swabs and 4,781 rapid tests. The rate of new positives is 5.55% (11.3% on the first diagnoses)”. The infections of today, 5 August, are like those of the previous day (it was from 8 May that there were not many new positives). Three dead, average age 70. The numbers that tell of the circulation of the Delta variant, also photographed by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc) every week. Tuscany, together with the Marche, becomes orange (as Sicily and Sardinia had become last week.
The European classification
The area of attention therefore rises, with the orange Tuscany together with Marche, Sicily and Sardinia where the contagions run. In the weekly map published by the Ecdc in green only Valle d’Aosta, Molise and Puglia remain, while all the others are in yellow. In the rest of Europe almost all of Spain turns dark red, together with the South of France, the northern part of Ireland and Cyprus. Orange Greece, Portugal, Malta, Southern Ireland, most of France and Estonia. Sweden and Finland are back in yellow. The green belt remains in Germany, Eastern Europe and parts of Norway. The European ECDC map is used as a reference for deciding travel restrictions from many EU countries.
Giani worried about tourism
The president of the Region Eugenio Giani admits that there could be repercussions on tourism: “Definitely”, he says, answering a specific question from the reporters. “And in my opinion these are data that connote a situation that I personally do not find. We find ourselves having a situation that is clearly stabilizing the curve and in this context we see that we have 225 hospitalizations, but in the covid wards there are more than 5 thousand places available. We have 22 people hospitalized in intensive care, when we can handle up to 650-700. So I am perplexed “.
Giani insists on slowing down the infections: “In the face of a terrible enemy like covid – he says – one must not exceed optimism, so I am very measured, but the fact that for the first time after five weeks of very strong growth of the covid , Thursday, the day with the highest circulation, we have a data similar to that of last week “is positive because it implies a slowdown in the growth of the curve.
Vandals in Pisa
The president of the Tuscany Region anticipating today the data on the progress of the epidemic had explained that “72% of Tuscans over 12 received the first dose” and that “35 thousand vaccines” were administered in the last 24 hours. Giani also posted a photo of a sign indicating the places of vaccination, which is located inside the Ospedaletto vaccination center. Someone with the red spray wrote: “This is a crime”. The governor replied on Facebook: “Criminal is whoever vandalizes the Ospedaletto vaccination center in Pisa. I express full solidarity with the health workers who do their best every day to make #Toscanasicura. We go on and we don’t stop!“.
The complete bulletin
In Tuscany there are 254,983 cases of Coronavirus positivity, 765 more than yesterday. The average age of new positives is about 33 years: 24% are under 20, 45% between 20 and 39, 22% between 40 and 59, 6% between 60 and 79, 3% are 80 or older. Unfortunately, there are three new deaths – all men, average age 70, one resident in the province of Livorno, two in that of Grosseto – bringing the total to 6,924. Decisive increase in the number of hospitalized patients returning to over 200: compared to yesterday there are 25 more, for a total of 223, of which 22 in intensive care (1 more). These are the data disseminated by the Region.
The healed grew by 0.1% and reached 238,967 (93.7% of total cases). The currently positive ones are today 9,092, + 6.5% compared to yesterday. Overall, 8,869 people are in isolation at home, as they have mild symptoms that do not require hospital care, or are symptom-free (526 more than yesterday, up 6.3%). There are 12,354 (39 more than yesterday, plus 0.3%) people, also isolated, in active surveillance because they have had contact with infected people. With regard to the individual provinces, Florence records 267 more cases than yesterday, Prato 60, Pistoia 78, Massa Carrara 28, Lucca 74, Pisa 90, Livorno 63, Arezzo 52, Siena 31, Grosseto 22.