From Monday 3 June, four other regions pass into the yellow zone: Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio and Sicily. These are territories in which the admissions of Covid patients in the ordinary wards exceed 15% of the total and those in therapy 10%. In addition to Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, the autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento, Veneto, Marche and Calabria. Bringing the total to 11. Although 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 white and yellow areas in terms of anti-contagion measures. Even if in the yellow zone the hospital overload is greater. The official decision on the color change will be officially made by the control room after the examination of the weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health.
Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio and Sicily in the yellow band
There is a boom in cases in Lombardy, which has become the epicenter of infections (1,433 new cases per week for every 100,000 inhabitants, with the peak of Milan at 1,813). And the hospitalizations are growing. Even if the 2 thousand more beds in the ordinary wards mobilized for Covid patients in the last ten days (which went from 8,485 in total registered on 18 December to 10,457 on 30 December) made it possible to keep the hospitalization rate lower for a few days, however, it grew up to 17.5%. While in intensive care we are above the threshold at 13.3%.
In Piedmont (1,012 weekly cases per 100 thousand inhabitants) in one week the incidence more than doubled (it was at 440 last Thursday). And for six days he has had yellow zone numbers, with admissions to ordinary wards at 20.2% and those in intensive care at 16.2%. Slower in the Lazio (515 weekly cases per 100 thousand inhabitants) the increase in hospitalizations but we are still above the thresholds: 17.6% in the non-critical area and 12.6% in resuscitation. With numbers now also the Sicily (390 new weekly infections per 100 thousand inhabitants), where hospitalizations in ordinary wards rose to 20.3% and those in intensive care to 11 percent.
Emilia Romagna one step away from the change of color
A breath away from the yellow zone Emilia Romagna (619 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants), where hospitalizations in ordinary wards have risen to 14.8%, touching the threshold of 15%. While those in intensive care are already at 13.6 percent. The situation is also worrying in Umbria where there is a peak in the incidence of infections (1,476 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants) and the hospitalization rate in the non-critical area is 18.4%. But intensive care is below the threshold at 6.3%.
For Liguria and Calabria there is an orange danger
Among the regions in yellow, the closest to orange (over 30% hospitalizations in non-critical areas and over 20% in resuscitation) is Liguria. Calabria is also at risk. While the situation has stabilized in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (22% of hospitalizations in ordinary wards and 14.8% in intensive care), in the Marche (22.1% in non-critical area and 20.6% in resuscitation) and in Veneto (18.9% in ordinary wards and 16,% in intensive care) Liguria in particular, hospitalizations in ordinary wards rose to 28.3% and those in intensive care to 19%. But it also worries the situation in Calabria where the hospitalization rate is respectively 29.3% in ordinary wards and 16.6% in intensive care.