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First for hospitalizations, infections and deaths: last for vaccinated. All the negative records of Sicily

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First region for people currently infected and for the hospitalization rate of Covid patients in intensive care and in ordinary wards. Second region after Sardinia for new weekly cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and 64 victims in the last week, a quarter of the total recorded in Italy in the last seven days. Last place for vaccinated over 60s. There are many negative records in Sicily. It is no coincidence that the island is starting to be the first region to pass in the yellow band.

First regions for infections

With 1,229 new positives recorded on 17 August and 997 on 18 August, Sicily rose to 150 weekly cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, one step away from Sardinia (154), for a total of about 20 thousand people currently positive (first place in Italy ). And the trend is growing while at the national level it seems that the plateau of the curve has been reached. Last week the new positives in Sicily were 6,833, 34.1 percent more than the previous week, when an increase of 14.7 percent had already been recorded.

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The primacy of hospitalizations

Not only. The region has the highest occupancy rate of Covid beds both in intensive care (10%) and in ordinary wards (17%). In the first case on line and in the second case over the maximum threshold set by the new parameters for the passage in the yellow band. Patients in ordinary wards went from 459 registered on 11 August to 621 on 18 August and those in intensive care from 59 to 80.

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The increase in hospital beds

Regional authorities are increasing the number of beds available per Covid patient. A measure that could avoid the yellow zone on the occasion of the 20 August monitoring for yet another week. On 11 August the Region had communicated 3,167 ordinary places and 730 in intensive care to Agenas (National Agency for Regional Health Services). On 17 August the places in the medical area rose to 3,669, while those in intensive care to 762. To these must be added another 196 places that can be activated in case of emergency.

The role of the tourism boom

“If you increase the number of beds, returning to the levels of March, you do so because the number of infected people is growing and therefore the precautionary principle guides us. If we had not done so, with this growth in hospitalized, we would probably have been accused of the opposite “explained the councilor of Health of the Sicilian Region, Ruggero Razza, about the choice to increase the capacity in the Covid departments on the island, invaded by hundreds of thousands of tourists, with hotels and restaurants selling out. “Over two million in August alone,” says Razza. And this cannot fail to have repercussions on infections, especially among the youngest who frequent the clubs and socialize more.

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