Coronavirus, Brusaferro: "Slow curves decrease, keep great attention"

Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health

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January 29, 2021 "Overall there is an improvement, the curves decrease but very slowly, as you have seen in other European countries there are some decreases and strong concerns about the variants that are now everywhere. The

, we must not relax, keep a great deal of attention and all the rules that have accompanied us since the beginning of the pandemic we still need to maintain and reduce the circulation of the virus ", said Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health in presenting the data from the control room on epidemic monitoring.

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, thus the curve that is stabilizing.

Our country ranks at the lowest margin among the European countries.

The trend of the symptomatic curve and that of the asymptomatic ones also indicate a decrease which in some areas is still to be confirmed with the data.

In the comparison between two 15-day periods, there is a decrease among all the Regions, except Bolzano which has a very high growth but also because it is also doing mass testing on the population ", continues Brusaferro. 

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We record a slow decrease in hospitalizations and intensive care.

The pre-eminent age group for hospitalizations is over 70 ", continued Brusaferro." In Italy there is a decrease, a decrease in infections in all regions except for a small hint of growth in Umbria, Molise and in the province autonomous of Bolzano.

However, we highlight glimmers of optimism.

RT this week - he concluded - is below 1 in all Regions.

For Italy it is 0.84.

This is an important fact.

The situation is therefore improving but we are still far from decreeing the emergency ".