Rome, 20 March 2022 – Waiting for the new bulletin of the Ministry of Health on the progress of Covid in Italy, while the cases in Europe and in the world are increasing but the mortality rate is decreasing. In this last week the trend of infections in our country it marked an increase (here all data as of March 19), which – warns the Gimbe Foundation – although it is not “a simple ‘rebound’, at the moment we cannot label the ascent as the start of the fifth wave”. Too many regional differences, underlines the president Nino Cartabellotta: lower viral circulation for the 18.8 million people of Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna, and high incidence in the center-south in particular in Umbria, Puglia, Calabria, Marche, Basilicata, Lazio, Abruzzo and Tuscany. From 13 to 19 March + 30.2% of cases and an increase in the currently positive ones, from just over 971 thousand on 10 March to 1,147,519 yesterday and initial signs of impact on hospitalizations.
Summary
At the European level, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention, at the end of the week ending Sunday 13 March “the epidemiological situation in the EU / EEA was characterized by a break in the downward trend, with an overall 14-day case notification rate increasing by 4.6% and a proportionately greater increase of 9.1% among people aged 65 and over “. According to the ECDC report, the overall notification rate of cases was 1,565 per 100,000 inhabitants (1,496 the previous week). This rate has been increasing for a week. The 14-day Covid-19 death rate (32.1 deaths per million population, compared to 41.8 deaths the previous week) has been decreasing for three weeks.
A global level after a substantial decrease in the number of new cases of Covid-19 on a weekly basis, from the end of January 2022, during the week of 7 to 13 March 2022, the number of new cases per week increased by 8% compared to the previous week. As of March 13, 2022, over 455 million confirmed cases and over 6 million deaths have been reported globally.
(We will publish here, as soon as available, the data and the table in Pdf)
In Puglia have been registered 6,464 new cases compared to 31,485 tests. The new positives are divided as follows: 1,850 in the province of Bari, 411 in the province of Barletta, Andria, Trani and 590 in that of Brindisi, 731 in the province of Foggia, 2,139 in the province of Lecce, 678 in the province of Taranto as well as 49 residents outside region and 16 of the province under definition. They have also been registered 4 deaths. Currently there are 102,486 positive people, 562 are hospitalized in a non-critical area and 27 in intensive care. Overall, since the beginning of the emergency, the total cases are 836,805, 726,461 people are cured and 7,858 those who have died.
The curve of the new positives falls in Veneto in the last 24 hours, with 4,656 almost in addition, bringing the total to 1,419,645. The regional bulletin reports 3 deaths, for a total of 14,039 victims. The current positives rise to 66.408 (+1.030). The pressure on hospitals is decreasing, where 728 patients are hospitalized in the non-critical area (-4) and 59 (-1) in intensive care. As for the vaccination campaign, 7,315 doses were administered yesterday, of which most (6,353) were additional / booster. In the population over 12, 88.5% received two doses and 72.6% received three. In the pediatric range, 30.1% completed the cycle with the recall.
I’m 4.577 (912 less than yesterday) i new positives al Coronavirus in Tuscany reported, which increase the number of people currently positive throughout the region to 42,704 (+ 2.3%) (931,471 since the beginning of the pandemic, more than two years ago). The hospital beds occupied are 741 (22 more than yesterday), of which 29 in intensive care (three fewer). With twelve new deaths the number of deaths is also updated: 9,324 since the beginning of the health emergency. Finally, 41,963 people are in isolation at home, because they have mild symptoms that do not require hospital treatment or are symptom-free.
I’m 3,896 new cases of Coronavirus positivity recorded in Emilia Romagna in the last 24 hours, based on about 15 thousand swabs. There have also been seven dead, three in the Modena area, two in the Parma area and one in the provinces of Ferrara and Ravenna. The number of active cases at 39,347. The number of people admitted to intensive care is stable, 51, like yesterday, while the number of positives in ordinary hospital wards, which is 880, is slightly increasing (+13).
the Walk record 2,396 almost in the last 24 hours (395 symptomatic), with 5,771 swabs processed in the diagnostic course. The positivity rate is 41.5% (yesterday it was 44.5% with 2,560 cases), the cumulative incidence per 100 thousand inhabitants continues to grow, passing from 1133.01 to 1152.79. A total of 202 (+6) patients are assisted in hospitals and 25 (-2) in emergency rooms waiting to be transferred to the wards. In intensive care there are 7 patients (-2) and the bed occupancy rate is 3.5%; 62 (+10) patients in semi-intensive areas and 133 (-2) hospitalized in non-intensive wards, with 19.1% occupancy of beds in the medical area. Finally they are reported four deaths.
In Sardinia the new positives are 1,411, the deaths four, the patients hospitalized in intensive care units are 20 (+2) and those in the medical area 322 (-5). In Basilicata 811 new cases were identified against 3,244 swabs, while three deaths.