At the same time, the number of symptomatic cases notified to the surveillance system rises, from 1,406 to 1,605, and therefore the percentage of positive swabs in the territorial setting goes from 6 to 7%. Sicily passes into the yellow zone
UDINE. Even if the percentage of occupancy of the beds still remains far from 10 percent, the limit set for entry into the yellow zone, the figure is also increasing in Friuli Venezia Giulia. In the week from 16 to 22 August, compared to the previous one, it went from 4 to 6 percent. The employment rate in medical departments, on the other hand, is stable at 2 per cent.
At the same time, the number of symptomatic cases notified to the surveillance system rises, from 1,406 to 1,605, and therefore the percentage of positive swabs in the territorial setting goes from 6 to 7%. The Rt index still remains below 1 (0.97).
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And if the active outbreaks drop from 266 to 93 units, the cases of infection not associated with transmission chains go from 195 to 243 units. These are the data reported in the draft of the weekly monitoring of the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health sent to the control room to analyze the national situation.
The situation in Italy
If the Italian average stands at 6% occupancy in intensive care and 7% in the non-critical area, other regions are approaching the maximum parameters. Umbria records 9% of intensive employment, one step away from exceeding the threshold: 8%, on the other hand, employment in ordinary departments, therefore still far from the 15% limit. Threshold reached instead by Calabria which, however, records 7% of occupancy of intensive care (same percentage of Tuscany, Abruzzo and Emilia-Romagna).
Sicily passes into the yellow zone
Last week it was avoided by a whisker: today, however, the passage in the yellow zone of Sicily seems to be taken for granted. Tomorrow, like every Friday, the monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health is scheduled to give the complete picture and the control room will almost certainly formalize the first color change (from the end of June all of Italy is the white zone). Meanwhile, Sardinia continues to be under close observation with numbers now a breath away from the change of color.
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