The resurgence of infections was one of the most feared consequences of the reopening of schools. But the data of the new positives, one month after returning to class, continue to decline in all age groups. Including the 0-19 age group of the population. In short, thanks to mass vaccination, the feared inversion of the epidemic curve seems to have been averted for now.
Rezza: for now there are no warning signs from schools
“For now we have no particular warning signs from schools, we are closely monitoring the epidemiological evolution. Fortunately, children who are infected with SarsCoV2 rarely develop the disease in a severe form. We still need to monitor the situation to assess whether the virus begins to circulate more quickly, but for now there are no particular warnings and we hope it will continue like this “said the director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, at the press conference for the analysis. of the Weekly Monitoring data.
Infections are decreasing in the 0-19 age range
The data confirms his words. The school year began in half of the Italian regions on 13 September. The last to resume lessons in the presence, on September 20, were the students of Calabria and Puglia. The cases diagnosed and reported between 6 and 19 September, therefore between the beginning of the school, were 14,967 in the range 0-19. In the period 13 – 26 September they dropped to 13,352. The latest focus on school age in the context of the report Iss-Epicenter on integrated surveillance speaks of a further decisive reduction: 10,100 cases in the period 27 September – 10 October.
Brusaferro: decreasing cases in all age groups
«The median age of those who become infected is 40 years, 66 years and the median age of those hospitalized in intensive care, 63 for hospitalizations in the medical area, 81 years for deaths. In all age groups the number of new cases is slowly decreasing »declared the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, at the press conference for the analysis of the weekly monitoring data.
The data at a general level
And the data elaborated by the Gimbe Foundation confirm that we are after all in the sixth consecutive week of new cases in decline at a general level. In the week 6-12 October, the Covid positives in the entire population were 18,209, down from 21,060 in the period September 29-October 5, to 23,159 in the week of September 22-28, as well as to 28,767 in the week before (15-21 September).