Health Minister Roberto Speranza signed the ordinances for the transition from next Monday from the white zone to the yellow zone of the regions Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Abruzzo and Valle d’Aosta. They will join the 9 regions and 2 autonomous provinces already in yellow (Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont, Liguria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trento PA, Bolzano PA, Marche, Lazio, Calabria and Sicily). From 10 January, therefore, only 6 regions will remain blank: Molise, Puglia, Sardinia, Basilicata, Umbria and Campania (but with the latter 2 almost at strong yellow risk from 17 January).
It should be specified that with the obligation to wear a mask outdoors even in the white area there is no longer any distinction between the two areas in terms of anti-contagion measures. But in the yellow area hospital admissions are greater (over 10% of Covid patients in intensive care and over 15% in ordinary wards) and therefore the saturation of beds is a more serious problem than in the white area.
The increase in hospitalizations
On the basis of the data used by the control room (referring to the hospitalization situation on January 6), therefore, from January 10, theEmilia Romagna (19.4% hospitalization rate in ordinary wards and 15.7% in intensive care), the Tuscany (17.9% of admissions in non-critical areas and 17.2% in resuscitation), theAbruzzo (18.7% of Covid patient admissions in ordinary wards and 13.3% in intensive care) and Valle d’Aosta who has hospitalizations in ordinary wards even from the red zone (42.4%) but intensive care at 15.1 percent. With two more hospitalizations in reanimation, orange would go off. With five more the red.
Umbria and Campania at risk
They risk leaving the white band shortly even theUmbria (27.3% in non-critical area admissions and 9.4% in resuscitation) and the Campania (19.8% and 9.8% respectively).
Liguria touches orange
While the Liguria, long in the balance, narrowly avoids the orange zone this week. It has in fact exceeded the critical threshold of 30% of admissions of Covid patients in ordinary wards (we are at 34.2%) but only touches that of 20% in intensive care (we are at 19.9% - given the control room). Also dangerously close to the orange zone Calabria (33.7% in the ordinary wards and 17.8% in resuscitation). Under observation the Market (24.1% in non-critical area and 23.9% in intensive care