• Iss: Rt rises to 1.16, the epidemic accelerates.

    Intensive care beyond the critical threshold

  • Rules to follow in the red and orange areas

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March 13, 2021 The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, on the basis of the data and indications of the Control Room, signed the ordinances to decree the new colors of the Regions.

These ordinances will go into effect Monday, March 15, and will apply for a period of 15 days.



Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont, Puglia, Veneto and the Autonomous Province of Trento pass into the red area, in addition to the already red Campania and Molise.

All the other Regions, including Basilicata, will enter the orange area.



The president of Basilicata: "We will be orange but no pressure on hospitals"

"Basilicata had gone from the yellow zone to red two weeks ago, due to the variations. We who even seemed to have to become white, for this explosion of cases in our territory, with the exceeding of the threshold of 250 per 100 thousand inhabitants, we had this abrupt Now the regional data are being refined, the RT will certainly go down, and we will be orange. But I keep saying that the data we need to refer to is the pressure on hospitals and intensive care ".

The president of the Basilicata Region, Vito Bardi, told Skytg24.

"We asked to do a careful check on the data - said Bardi - At the moment we do not have pressure on intensive care, as we do not have pressure on hospitals, but the variant has spread quickly and strongly, and this has caused difficulties. even if hospitals and intensive care are under control ".



Trento becomes red zone, Alto Adige no

The Province of Trento becomes red zone, while that of Bolzano, for which the same passage was assumed, but not.

This is what is learned from sources of the Ministry of Health. 



Dl brings all yellow regions to orange.

White Sardinia

"All the other Regions, except those indicated in red, will be in the orange area due to the effects of the decree approved this morning. Sardinia alone remains in the white area."

This is what is learned from sources of the Ministry of Health on the content of the new ordinance.



Cirio: unacceptable to know new measures now

"Once again we arrived late in the evening on Friday to know with certainty from what day the new measures would be taken".

So on Facebook the governor Alberto Cirio comments yesterday evening the entry of Piedmont, from Monday 15 March, in the red zone.

"This is not acceptable, out of respect for those who work and for families who must be able to organize their lives in such a difficult moment", adds Cirio.



Iss: incidence of cases accelerates, touches 225 per 100 thousand

Measures made necessary to counter the acceleration reported by the control room, through weekly monitoring.

In the week 1-7 March, an important acceleration in the increase of the incidence at national level continues to be observed compared to the previous week: 225.64 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (01 March - 07 March) against 194.87 per 100,000 inhabitants (22 February - February 28).