Rome, 25 June 2022 – Today’s Bulletin on Covid in Italy: i contagion are 56,386, the dead 40. Le terapie intensive are stable (with 28 entrances), i hospitalizations mark another increase: +137 units. There were about 258 thousand swabs, with a positivity rate of 21.8% (-1.6%). The current positives are 703,479, so 25,301 more in the last 24 hours. The region with the most cases is still there Lombardy with 8,115 infections, followed by Lazio (+6.992), Veneto (+6.613), Campania (+5.908) ed Emilia Romagna (+4.546). The total cases since the beginning of the pandemic come to 18,184,917, while the discharged / recovered in the last 24 hours are 31,532 for a total that rises to 17,313,380.
Crisanti: “Better that the virus circulates. In the autumn we will be stronger”
Andreoni: “Omicron 5 is not an influence. The mask will come back to the bar”
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There are 8,115 new positives recorded in the last 24 hours in Lombardy. There were 12 deaths, for a total of 40,773 deaths since the start of the pandemic. 715 (+13) Covid positive people are hospitalized in Lombardy hospitals and 15 in intensive care units (-2). The new positives in the province of Milan are 2,979.
In Lazio they are registered 6,992 new cases positive (-50) on a total of 30,857 swabs (4,088 molecular and 26,769 antigenic). I’m 5 deaths (+2), 554 patients (-10), 54 people hospitalized in intensive care and 5,771 more those recovered. The ratio of positives to swabs is 22.6%. The cases in Rome city are at 4,084
Spike in unreported cases
We are in a phase of the epidemic characterized by a sharp increase in cases not notified, i.e. of people who have had the infection but have not taken the test or have not communicated the result. “This could lead to the underestimation of the incidence rateand therefore of the relative risk, and vaccination efficacy “, warns the Higher Institute of Health in the extended report published today which supplements the weekly monitoring published yesterday.
Reinfections increase
With the rise in cases and the Rt index (which after 2 and a half months has returned to exceed 1), the risk of recovering the virus also rises for those who have already contracted it: in the last week the percentage of reinfections from Covid out of the total number of cases reported it is equal to 8.4%, an increase compared to the previous week (7.5%). From 24 August 2021 to 22 June 2022, 556,406 cases of reinfection were reported, equal to 4.0% of the total reported cases. According to statistics, the risk is higher in unvaccinated, women and younger age groups.
Hope: isolation cannot be touched
Despite the summer wave they are not expected restrictive measures on the horizon: “They are not on the agenda – the minister said today Roberto Speranza from the pages of Repubblica -. Having no restrictions, however, does not mean that individual behavior and recommendations do not count. “The measures still in force such as the isolation of positives on the other hand, they are not in question. “Whoever is infected must stay at home. Today there are 650,000 people in solitary confinement, it is unimaginable that they will go around”. “The challenge now is to focus on the responsibility of individuals masks, for example, in some cases they continue to be recommended. They remain a very useful tool and exceeding the obligation does not mean that their importance has diminished. They should be used on all risky occasions ”