Coronavirus in Italy, today’s December 22 bulletin: 36,293 new cases and 146 deaths

I am 36,293
the new cases of coronavirus in Italy (yesterday there were 30,798, here the bulletin). It goes up like this at least 5,472,469
the number of people who have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus (including recovered and died) since the outbreak began. THE deaths today I am 146
(yesterday there were 153), for a total of 136,077 victims from February 2020.

People recovered or discharged they are altogether 4,933,663 And 17,595 those that came out of the Covid nightmare today (16,189 yesterday). The positive current – the subjects who have the virus – turn out to be in everything 402.729, equal to +18.585 compared to yesterday (+14,441 the day before).

The swabs and the scenario

THE total swabs (molecular and antigenic) were 779.303, which is 72,562 less than yesterday when it was 851,865. While the rate of positivity 4.7% (the approximation of 4.657%); yesterday it was 3.6%. Here is the map of the contagion in Italy.

More infections in 24 hours than yesterday, which mark a new peak of the year (the highest number in 2021), with a similar figure to those observed 13 months ago. Recalling that the absolute record of the pandemic in Italy was +40,902 cases (with 550 deaths), recorded on November 13, 2020, during the second wave, with the Lombardy above altitude 10 thousand cases
, like today. Obviously, the trend of the curve remains uphill continuously.

In the last 7 days there has been a new leap in cases: + 40% new infections – explains physicist Giorgio Sestili -. This increase probably due to a very rapid spread of Omicron also in Italy and this is changing the cards on the table and is blowing up the mathematical models that predicted a peak for Christmas.

A year ago, in the week 21-27 December 2020, the average of infections was 13,587 cases / day and that of deaths of 445 deaths / day. The comparison with last December shows a clear difference in the victims, thanks to the vaccine. In the same period of time the hospitalized were over 24 thousand (precise mediated figure: 24,142) and in resuscitation there were more than 2,600 seriously ill patients (precise mediated figure: 2,625) with an average of 167 resuscitation entries / day. Even on hospitalizations, today’s numbers are different.

For the fourth time since the beginning of the emergency the Lombardy exceeds the threshold of 10 thousand new infections: previously only happened during the second wave, precisely on November 7, 2020, November 10, 2020 and November 13, 2020.

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