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January 18, 2021 According to the latest update of the data of the Ministry of Health, in the last 24 hours

8,824 new cases

have been registered

, compared to 158,674 swabs carried out.

377 deaths

.

Yesterday there were 12,545 cases with 377 deaths and 211,078 swabs.



The ratio of tampons to new cases drops to 5.6%, against the previous 5.9%.



The total number of hospitalized patients in Italy is 25,428 patients, an increase of 168 cases compared to yesterday.

Of these, 2,544 are in intensive care, an increase of 41 units.

521,630 people are in home isolation, 6,484 fewer in the last 24 hours.

There are 1,760,489 people discharged and recovered, an increase of 14,763 units.



The total of

currently positive

in Italy is

547,058

cases, ie 6,316 less than the last survey.


The deaths are 377 in the last 24 hours for a total of 82,554 victims of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy.


The total cases are 2,390,101 (+8,824).

The swabs in the last 24 hours were 158,674, which is 52,404 fewer than the previous day.



The regions that recorded the highest number of new daily cases are

Sicily

(+1.278),

Lombardy

(+1.189),

Emilia-Romagna

(+1.153),

Veneto

(+998),

Lazio

(+872),

Campania

(+714) ,

Piedmont

(+435).



Veneto

The Veneto falls after months below the quota of one thousand new daily infections, exactly 998 in the last 24 hours.

Even the deaths are in a decided case: 47 compared to yesterday, which however make the region exceed the quota of 8,000 victims since the beginning of the epidemic, on 21 February last year.

According to the regional bulletin, updated at 8 am today, the pressure on hospitals also drops, but only for hospitalizations in non-critical areas, 2,661 (-54), while patients admitted to intensive care units in hospitals remain stable at 354 of Veneto.



Emilia-Romagna

As anticipated by the Councilor for Health Donini in Emilia-Romagna there are 1,153 new cases of coronavirus, while 51 deaths. Since the beginning of the Coronavirus epidemic, 203,141 positive cases have been recorded in Emilia-Romagna.

The swabs carried out in the last 24 hours were 9,980 swabs (8,736 molecular and 1,244 antigenic rapid).

The percentage of new positives on the number of swabs made since yesterday is 11.5%. 



Puglia

Few tests and even few positive at Covid19 in the last 24 hours in Puglia.

403 new infections were registered on 3065 tests carried out as reported by the Region on the basis of information from the director of the Health Promotion Department Vito Montanaro.

Of these, 175 are in the province of Bari, 22 in the province of Brindisi, 14 in the province of Bat, 117 in the province of Foggia, 62 in the province of Lecce, 18 in the province of Taranto.

26 deaths were recorded: 13 in the province of Bari, 2 in the province of Bat, 1 in the province of Brindisi, 8 in the province of Foggia, 2 in the province of Taranto.

Yesterday there were 25. Since the beginning of the emergency, 1,184,798 tests have been carried out.

51443 patients recovered, almost 1000 more (yesterday 50458).

The currently positive cases are 55,512 against 56,120 yesterday.

There are 1,541 hospitalized patients, a slight decrease compared to yesterday when they were 1545. 



Friuli Venezia Giulia

In the detail of today's data on Covid-19 in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the sector of residences for the elderly, 5 cases of positivity were detected among the people housed in regional structures , while the health workers found infected within the same structures are in total 2. This was announced by the deputy governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia with responsibility for Health, Riccardo Riccardi.

With regard to the regional health system (SSR), the positivity to Covid of a nurse and two doctors must be recorded in the Friuli Centrale university health authority;

in the Giuliano Isontina university healthcare company of a doctor and a social health worker. 



Piedmont

Today the Crisis Unit of the Piedmont Region reported 435 new cases of people who tested positive for Covid-19 (of which 66 after antigen tests), equal to 4% of the 10,817 swabs performed, of which 6783 antigenic.

Of the 435 new cases, 191 are asymptomatic (43.9%).

There are 19 deaths of positive people in the Covid-19 test reported by the Crisis Unit of the Piedmont Region, of which 6 occurred today (please note that the cumulative updated data communicated daily also includes deaths that occurred in the previous days and only subsequently ascertained as Covid deaths).

The total is now 8,419 deaths.