The overall numbers of infected, dead and hospitalized are growing. The Covid emergency is not over but Sardinia, which in the meantime reopens another dedicated department, avoids the yellow zone for another week.
Downgrading avoided
The region is saved from downgrading thanks to a percentage point below the critical threshold for the occupation of beds in the medical area by Covid patients. According to the draft of the weekly monitoring to the attention of the control room, which decided to downgrade Sicily alone to yellow, the pressure on the non-critical area remains at 14% (the threshold is 15%), while the limit of the 10% in the intensive is exceeded with 11.2%. Another criterion, that of cases per 100 thousand inhabitants: Sardinia for three consecutive weeks falls within the parameters of the yellow zone within the range between 50 and 150 cases in seven days: 141.8 between 6 and 12 August, 156, 4 between 13 and 19 August, 148.5 from 20 to 26 August.
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The bulletin
Since the beginning of August, the cases of positivity registered in Sardinia are 8,884. On the last day, the bulletin recorded 343 cases of positive Covid on the basis of 2946 people tested. A total of 6244 tests were processed, between molecular and antigenic. The patients admitted to the intensive care units are 24 (1 less than the previous day). 233 patients were admitted to the medical area (+ 5 compared to the previous day). Cases of home isolation are on the rise, passing to 7866 (+ 104). There are also 3 deaths: 2 men aged 50 and 83 and a woman aged 74, all residing in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari.
The rock of September 6
The risk of a downgrade remains and could be triggered, should this trend be confirmed, starting from 6 September.
New Covid department
The reopening of another Covid ward at the Santissima Trinità hospital in Cagliari is in the pipeline. “With this opening we will reach 6 Covid departments and 1 intensive care at the Santissima – says Sergio Marracini, epidemiologist doctor specializing in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine and director of the Unico Hospital of Cagliari -, the concern is that this fourth wave is truly the most massive because it is reaching numbers that we thought it could not reach ”. To create the covid departments at the Santissima Trinità hospital, the infectious disease, pulmonology, geriatrics, cardiology, medicine and ordinary hospitalization departments were reconverted. As for the hospitalized, the director clarifies: “90 percent did not get the vaccine“.