Genoa – The epidemic curve in Italy is still rising. There are 84,700 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, compared to 86,334 yesterday. The positivity rate drops from 27.3% to 26%. There are 63 deaths (yesterday there were 72), hospitalizations are on the rise: 11 more intensive therapies, which thus become 275 in all with 40 admissions a day. And 205 more are ordinary hospitalizations (yesterday +238) for a total of 7,035, the 18th consecutive day of growth.
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In the meantime, the ISS reports that cases of reinfection with SarsCoV2 virus have increased in Italy by 9.5% in the last week, compared to the previous one, when the increase was 8.4%, «given with consolidation times». This is indicated by the “Extended report on Covid-19: surveillance, impact of infections and vaccination efficacy”, with national data updated as of June 28 last. The ISS also indicates that from 24/8/2021 to 28/6/2022 587,347 cases of reinfection were reported.
The number of infections from Covid in Veneto continues to rise, reaching 8,110 (+151) new cases in the last 24 hours, while there are 5 victims. As for the number of hospitalizations, the number of hospitalizations hospitalized is 664 (-14), while those in intensive care remain 31. In Piedmont there are 2,166 new cases of Covid with a positive rate of 10.4%. Yesterday it was double, 4,309. The diagnostic swabs analyzed are 20,837 of which 20,144 are antigenic. The number of hospitalized patients increases: + 2 in intensive care (total to 12), in the other wards + 9 (overall figure to 364). Four deaths.
There are over 6 thousand new cases of coronavirus infection in Emilia-Romagna, 6,287 detected on almost 20 thousand swabs in the last 24 hours, with a positivity rate of almost 32%. Yesterday there were 6,674 cases. There is a slight increase in hospitalizations: in intensive care there are 28 patients (+4 compared to yesterday), while there are 1,019 hospitalized in the other Covid wards (+21). The new Covid positive cases recorded in the last 24 hours in Tuscany are 4,527, average age 48 years, out of 18,048 swabs of which 1,898 are molecular and 16,150 rapid antigenic: of these 25.1% were positive (80.5% on the first diagnosis). Compared to yesterday, cases are decreasing while swabs increase and the positivity rate decreases: in the previous report the infections were 4,547 out of 17,221 tests, with an incidence of new positives of 26.40%, 4 deaths.
In Lazio, on the other hand, there are 10,367 new positives, 1,162 less than yesterday and 5,688 with a share in Rome. There are 6 deaths, three less than yesterday while there are 3 more hospitalized in intensive care and 36 in the medical wards. In Campania the positivity rate, with the latest data from the Covid regional bulletin, exceeds 35%. There are 11,428 positives against 10,699 yesterday compared to 32,601 tests for a rate of 35.05 compared to yesterday’s 34.93. The number of hospitalized patients in intensive care decreased from 29 to 25, while those in ordinary hospitalization increased further, passing from 481 to 492. No new victims.
Today in Puglia there are 6,968 new cases of Coronavirus infection against 6,576 yesterday on 21,875 tests analyzed in the last 24 hours for an incidence of 32%. There were six deaths. The number of currently positive returns above 50 thousand: they are 52,666 of which 338 hospitalized in a non-critical area (yesterday 321) and 14 in intensive care (like yesterday).
Faced with these data, “it is absurd that in the meeting between the government and the social partners the obligation to wear a mask has been reduced: it is not sensible to reduce health protection at a time when the Covid-19 epidemic is increasing exponentially “, Said in no uncertain terms the Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi, referring to the decision taken on June 30 in the Protocol to update the anti-Covid measures in the workplace and made known by the Ministry of Labor after the discussion with the ministries of Health and Economic Development , Inail and social partners.
Meanwhile, cases of pneumonia caused by the SarsCoV2 virus that require assisted ventilation return to increase in Italy and the most recent of the Omicron sub-variants, BA.5, is responsible: the national president of the Emergency Health Service 118 tells ANSA, Mario Balzanelli. “We are starting to see things we no longer saw: while previous versions of Omicron spared the lower airways, we are now starting to see pneumonia caused by Omicron BA.5, which manages to reach the pulmonary alveoli.” There are “forms of viral pneumonia that require assisted ventilation”.
The situation in Liguria, hospitalizations on the rise (+9)
The number of hospitalizations in Liguria is still growing (+9 units compared to yesterday). The total is 240 hospitalized, of which 6 in intensive care.
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