After Easter, on Tuesday, there will be color shifts of two Regions and a Province. That is Veneto (as announced by the president Luca Zaia), Market and Province of Trento. There remain nine of which, however, based on the data collected by the Control room, also this week they have a red zone scenario. And so they will have to wait even more before switching to orange. The rule of the government in fact provides that you must have numbers from orange for two consecutive monitors before being classified in that color but it is valid only if the red is due to RT or risk. If, on the other hand, it is connected to the incidence, that is to the cases per 100 thousand inhabitants which must be more than 250, a week in an area with more restrictions may suffice. In fact, that parameter was inserted after the Dpcm which required a 15-day wait if the other two are high. Meanwhile, theNational Rt, which comes back below 1 and reaches 0.98. The incidence is also decreasing, that is a 232.
To see the red confirmed due to the incidence of more than 250 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants Valle d’Aosta (380), Piedmont (337), Friuli Venezia Giulia (331), Puglia (318), Emilia Romagna (297), Lombardy (268), Tuscany (260). Then there are two Regions that will remain in the most restricted zone for at least another two weeks due to the Rt above 1.25 this week or the past. It is about Calabria e Campania (also there Valle d’Aosta exceeds this limit). Apart from these 9 Regions, all the highs are orange.
The epidemic is slowing down very slowly in Italy, so much so that there are still 14 Regions with the occupation of the beds of intensive care above the safety threshold of 30%.
From the control room they comment that “there is a slight reduction in incidence at the national level which remains high together with a decrease in the Rt index below the level of 1. At the same time, the circulation of variants with greater transmissibility is largely dominant in the Country which indicates the need not to reduce the current restriction measures. The incidence and transmissibility data, albeit slightly decreasing, combined with the strong overload of hospital services require the maintenance of rigorous national mitigation measures accompanied by timely mitigation / containment interventions in the most widespread areas “.
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