Coronavirus Italy today: Covid infections and September 24 data. Bulletin from the regions

Rome, 24 September 2021 – Daily appointment with the bulletin of the Ministry of Health and of Civil protection on the Coronavirus in Italia. Like in yesterday’s monitoring by the Gimbe Foundation also in the draft of the Higher Institute of Health all indicators have been declining in the last week: theindice Rt goes down a 0.82, l’incidence returns below the risk threshold of 50 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants and decreases, albeit slightly, i occupancy rates of medical areas e resuscitations. These last three values will be examined by control room which will draw the new map of colors of the regions: the Sicily still has numbers from yellow zone, while the other regions will also be white for the next seven days. And today’s data will also arrive in the afternoon Covid contagion, dead, hospitalizations e terapie intensive that they will further update us on the progress of the pandemic situation.

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Meanwhile, after the alarm raised by Nino Cartabellotta on the school, and in particular on the lack of “a screening strategy systematic of staff and students “, today a circular from the Ministry of Health gave the ok to salivary tests for children “as part of screening activities”. If you think about a possible use of this type of test also for fragile subjects, health workers e rsa, the ministry made it clear that “salivary tests do not reach the minimum acceptable levels of sensitivity and specificity and are currently excluded from the common European list of rapid antigen tests valid for obtaining the green pass“.

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We will publish here, as soon as they are available, the updated data from the Ministry of Health and the Pdf table

In Tuscany I’m 334 more than yesterday i new positives at Covid which have an average age of approximately 42 years. Today they register 2 new deaths bringing the total to 7,128 deaths. Declining hospitalizations: 348, 9 less than yesterday, of which 49 in intensive care (-2). The current positives are 7,720, -0.8% compared to yesterday. Among these are 7,372 people who are in isolation at home, as they have mild symptoms that do not require hospital care, or are symptom-free (53 fewer than yesterday, minus 0.7%).

Today in Puglia out of 13,030 tests carried out were detected 157 positive cases: 43 in the province of Bari, 5 in the province of Barletta, Andria, Trani, 11 in the province of Brindisi, 20 in the province of Foggia, 59 in the province of Lecce, 19 in the province of Taranto. They have also been registered 3 deaths. Currently there are 2,978 positive people: 168 are hospitalized in a non-critical area and 19 in intensive care.

In South Tyrol 58 new cases, 10 in Molise.