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April 13, 2020 Updated data in Italy and worldwide

The head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, communicates the latest data on the epidemic during the daily press point.

A total of 103,616 coronavirus patients in Italy, with an increase of 1,363 compared to yesterday, when the increase had been 1,984.

There are 20,465 victims, an increase compared to yesterday of 566. Yesterday the increase had been 431.

35,435 people were healed , 1,224 more than yesterday. Yesterday the increase in the healed was 1,677.

The number of infected people - including dead and healed - is 159,516, an increase compared to yesterday of 3,153.

Intensive care hospitalizations continue to decline for the tenth consecutive day. There are 3,260 patients in the wards, 83 fewer than yesterday. Of these, 1,143 are in Lombardy, 33 fewer than yesterday. Of the 103,616 patients overall, 28,023 are hospitalized with symptoms, 176 more than yesterday, and 72,333 are those in home isolation.

Rezza (Cts): we are still in Phase 1
"We are still in phase one, there is no doubt. There are positive signs but the number of deaths is still high because it can be attributed to previous infections. The numbers decrease slowly because they refer to the infections." This is the clarification of Giovanni Rezza of the Higher Institute of Health and member of the technical-scientific Committee in the press conference on Civil Protection.

"The time that passes between the moment of contagion and the moment of data notification, that is, today, can also be 20 days, so if you read that 'there are 300 new infections today', they are actually new cases, therefore who acquired the infections 20 days ago, "added Rezza. And he concluded: "What we see today is something that in terms of infection is attributable to days ago, this is important for understanding the meaning of the data".

"When will we be able to see the effects of containment measures also on deaths? I think it is the last indicator to decrease because the time between infections and deaths is the longest, unfortunately it is the last of the indicators that we will see deflected" said Rezza . "Certainly there has been a decrease, but first we will see the cases decrease and then the deaths. This is why we must consolidate the data and resist."

" We won't get to zero infections, " he added. "Unfortunately the virus will not stop its circulation. In Wuhan they have succeeded in taking incredible measures - he explains - but now they have a return effect. There is a tendency for us to decrease. But the virus will continue to circulate and we should patch continuously ".

"He is a promising candidate." So, referring to the vaccine that is being studied in Pomezia, Giovanni Rezza answered a question. Then he recalled that research is underway in collaboration with Oxford. It is "a vector vaccine, that is, it has a vector that does not replicate in humans, it is a monkey, which expresses the surface protein of the coronavirus, which is produced by Oxford. So it is a vaccine that uses a platform already used for ebola. The the advantage would be to be able to further accelerate the times perhaps by compressing the phases ".

"If I had to give a technical opinion I would not give it in favor and I believe that the Scientific Technical Committee agrees. Then it will be the policy that decides," said Rezza, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and member of the committee scientific technician, answering a question about the resumption of the football championship .