Rome, 30 June 2022 – The new ones continue to rise almost from Covid-19which register a 50.4% increase in a week. The ordinary hospitalizations (+ 25.7%) and the employment of terapie intensive (+ 15%). And the deaths (+ 16.3%). This is what the monitoring independent of Gimbe Foundation in the week from 22 al 28 Junea period in which almost were registered in Italy 55mil cases a day of Covid.
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In detail, compared to the update a week ago, the following changes are recorded: + 16.3% of deaths (392, of which 43 referring to previous periods), + 15% of hospitalizations in intensive care (31), +25 , 7% of hospitalizations with symptoms (1,232), + 29% of home isolations (172,257), + 50.4% of new cases (384,093), +28.9 of currently positive cases (173,520).
The incidence of reinfections of SarS-Cov-2 in Italy, in the week from 16 to 22 June, it reached the8.4% of total cases, registering 23,651 reinfections, a sharp increase compared to the previous week, when it was at 7.5%. The Gimbe Foundation recalls that, according to the latest report of the Higher Institute of Health (ISS), in the period 24 August 2021-22 June 2022 over 556 thousand reinfections were recorded in Italy, equal to 4% of the total cases.
The president of the Gimbe Foundation Nino Cartabellotta warns: “The progressive spread of variants BA.4 e BA.5together with the decline in general attention and the abolition of the obligation of masks in all places indoors, they have resulted in a sharp increase in circulation viral with effects already evident also on hospitals. In particular, in the medical area in 18 days the beds occupied by Covid patients are almost 2,000 more “.
Cartabellotta calls for caution for at least three reasons: “First of all the number of positives (over 770 thousand) is largely underestimated for the massive use of do-it-yourself swabs with partial notification of positive tests; secondly, it is impossible to predict the extent of this ascent cases that will have a proportional impact on hospitals; finally, the stalemate of the vaccination campaign it has generated a very large population susceptible to infection: 4.05 million unvaccinated, 5.54 million without third dose and 3.99 million vulnerable without fourth dose “.
In this phase of marked increase in viral circulation, he adds, “it is unacceptable that the administration of the fourth doses remains at stake, however, with significant regional inequalities”. To stem the circulation of the virus, Cartabellotta continues, “is the mask is fundamental in indoor areasespecially if crowded or poorly ventilated, and in large gatherings even outdoors, but also immediately administer the fourth dose of the vaccine to fragile and immunocompromised people “.