China News Service, April 18, according to the New York Times, two weeks ago, there were more than 4,000 new crown patients in the Italian Intensive Care Unit (ICU); on the 17th, the number of patients in the ICU dropped to 2812. At the same time, the number of inpatients with new crowns dropped from 29,010 on April 4 to 25,786. The report said that this reflects the steady relief of the Italian epidemic and the burden on the health care system is gradually easing.
According to reports, Franco Locatelli, chairman of the Italian Senior Health Council, said that this will allow people working in the ICU to better care for all patients who need intensive care, not just new crown patients. Previously, due to tight resources, doctors often needed to choose patients for treatment.
Data map: On April 1, local time, the Circolo Hospital in Varese, Italy, launched a "robot nurse" to care for patients with new coronary pneumonia.
Experts said that the mitigation of the epidemic was due to the "closing the city" measures implemented by Italy throughout the country, which greatly slowed down the spread of the virus. Italy has entered the state of "closing the city" from March 10, and has extended the "closing city" measures twice. The current "closing city" measures will continue until May 3.
Giovanni Rezza, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Italian National Institutes of Health, stated: "At the beginning of the outbreak, each infected person (probably) spread the virus to three other people. Thanks to the blockade measures, the One person or less. "" This in turn will affect hospitalization and ICU. "
As of 18:00 local time on the 17th, Italy has added 3493 new cases of new coronary pneumonia in 24 hours, with a total of 172434 diagnosed cases, 22745 deaths and 42727 cured cases.