The updates on the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday 17 February
The Covid curve falls rapidly in Italy, with the number of hospitalized patients decreasing by 17% in a week according to Fiaso monitoring: this is the first sharp decline in 3 months. 72% of patients in hospital for the virus do not have the vaccine or have not completed the vaccination course. The Covid section of the Codogno hospital is closed: it will be sanitized and a normal ward will return. And we are also moving towards the closure of the CTS.
The latest bulletin for Wednesday 16 February records 59,749 new cases and 278 deaths, with a positive rate of 10.76%.
9.10 am – Beijing: zero Covid cases, first time since the beginning of the Games
The organizers of Beijing 2022 announced that yesterday no new cases of Covid-19 were detected both at the arrivals at the airport and within the bubble system, as part of daily tests that reached almost 69,000: the first time from the opening of the Winter Games on February 4th. Overall, 507 infections were confirmed in the period January 4 – February 16, while from January 23 the tests carried out have risen to 1.53 million units.
8 am – Germany, over 235 thousand cases, incidence decreasing
There are 235,626 new cases in Germany, fewer than 247,862 a week ago. The weekly incidence also decreases, with 1385.1 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. There were 261 deaths compared to 238 a week ago.
7.30 – Since yesterday the Codogno Covid department has been closed again
It was closed yesterday afternoon and the Covid department in Codogno (Lodi) will be sanitized to reopen next Friday as a normal ward. It had been reopened on 10 January after the latest increase in patients. then the second closure in the city that symbolized the outbreak of the pandemic in Italy. The ward had been opened with the discovery of the so-called Italian patient 1 and had already been closed for the first time on 4 June 2021. We hope this is the last, definitive closure of this department underlines Paolo Bernocchi, health director of Asst in Lodi.
February 17, 2022 (change February 17, 2022 | 09:18)
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