Rome, March 17, 2022 – New bulletin on the epidemic from Coronavirus in Italia. Today’s updates from the Ministry of Health on Covid contagion, dead, recovered, intensive care and hospitalization. The attention on the numbers is high, given the rise of the curve in recent days, and in view of the new ones reopenings. The control room has already drawn up one road map of gradual return to normality, which will be examined by the Cdm in the afternoon. “At the end of March the state of emergency will end and some restrictions will fall, but these decisions unfortunately do not represent the end of the pandemic”, recalled the Minister for Regional Affairs. Mariastella Gelmini, during the meeting between the government and the Regions. “We will have to continue to keep our guard up – is the warning -: Covid is not yet defeated”.
Summary
Confirmation comes from monitoring the Gimbe Foundation: the Covid contagion curve, reports, “points high”, cases have grown by “36% in 7 days“and the inversion” is clear. “While the decrease in deaths continues (equal to -18.7%), the currently positive cases rise to 1,036,124 (they were 1,011,521) and the number of people in home isolation is also increasing ( 1,027,149 versus 1,002,153). A reversal of the trend which, declares the president of the Foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, “recognizes various causes: from the relaxation of the population to the spread of the more contagious variant Omicron BA.2″, Omicron 2, ” from the drop in vaccination protection against infection to the persistence of low temperatures that force indoor activities “. In this context,” the vaccination campaign has stalled despite almost 4.6 million vaccinable with the first dose “, points out Gimbe, given that it does not take into account the exemptions of which the exact data is not known,” and 2.9 with boosters “.
Here, as soon as available, the updates of the Ministry of Health and the Pdf table.
Another Covid bulletin near 7,000 in Veneto, which for some days has seen the epidemiological curve rise again. The new positives in the last 24 hours are 6.829 (yesterday there were 5,795), the victims are 7. The number of positives since the beginning of the epidemic rises to 1,402,097, that of deaths to 14,015. Consequently, the figure for subjects currently positive and in isolation rises again, 60,667 (+ 3,665). On the other hand, hospital reports are decreasing: Covid patients hospitalized in the medical area are 765 (-9), those in intensive care 56 (-2). Vaccination activity in the region continues on residual numbers. A total of 2,937 administrations were made yesterday, of which 117 first doses.
In Tuscany there are 915,716 cases of Coronavirus positivity, 5,529 more compared to yesterday (1,572 confirmed with molecular swab and 3,957 by rapid antigen test). New cases have an average age of around 40 years: 22% are under 20, 24% between 20 and 39, 32% between 40 and 59, 17% between 60 and 79, 5% are 80 or more. Unfortunately others are registered 12 deaths. The number of hospitalized patients is decreasing: they are 680, 19 fewer than yesterday, of which 27 in intensive care, 4 fewer. The healed grew by 0.3% and reached 869.181 (94.9% of total cases). The currently positive are 37,245 today, + 7.5% compared to yesterday. Overall, 36,565 people are in isolation at home, as they have mild symptoms that do not require hospital care, or are symptom-free (2,612 more than yesterday, up 7.7%). There are 5,771 (160 more than yesterday, plus 2.9%) people, also isolated, in active surveillance.
In the last 24 hours in Walk there have been 2,889 new cases of Covid (growing since yesterday there were 2,424), while the incidence rate is still growing and is approaching one thousand again. With 7,883 swabs tested (6,350 new diagnoses and 1,533 cured in the course) the positivity rate was 45.5% while the incidence rate was 974.35.
Fifteen more Covid hospitalized in the last day in Umbria, now 186, while the number of posts occupied in the intensive care units has dropped to three, from four, all in the Terni hospital. There have been two deaths in the last 24 hours according to the Region’s website. On the last day they emerged 2,522 new positives and 1,208 healed, with currently positives up 7.3% and now 19,315, 1,312 more. 2,571 swabs and 9,431 antigen tests were analyzed, with a positivity rate rising to 21%, up from 19.65% on Wednesday.
In Basilicata there are 1,022 new cases of Covud and two deaths. In South TyrolInstead, there are 642 new cases and no person has died as a result of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours. In Friuli Venezia Giulia a total of 1,241 new infections were detected, 6 people died.