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April 28, 2021

The updated situation in Italy and in the world



Today's data from the Ministry of Health on the pandemic in Italy.

Today there are 13,385 new cases with 336,336 swabs and 344 victims.

The death toll in Italy has exceeded 120 thousand: 120,256.



Yesterday there were 10,404 cases with 302,734 swabs and 373 victims (rate at 3.4%).



In

Lombardy

there have been 2,442 cases in the last 24 hours.



In Campania over 1,800 cases, the victims are 31


There are 1,844, of which 497 are symptomatic, the new positives at Covid 19 in Campania, out of 23,004 molecular swabs examined. The incidence rate drops by one percentage point and stands at 8.01% against 9.17 yesterday. Today's bulletin of the Crisis Unit also reports 31 victims and 1,689 recovered. The employment of intensive care units remained unchanged (136) while that of ordinary hospitalizations remained substantially stable at 1,507 (+1).



In Puglia 1,282 new cases and 48 deaths


In Puglia, 12,733 tests for Covid-19 coronavirus infection were recorded and 1,282 positive cases were recorded. 48 deaths were recorded. Since the beginning of the emergency, 2,198,817 tests have been carried out. 177,547 patients recovered. 48,643 are currently positive cases. The total of positive Covid cases in Puglia is 231,996.



In Piedmont 1,187 cases and 34 deaths


Today the Crisis Unit of the Piedmont Region communicated 1,187 new cases of people who tested positive for Covid-19 (of which 99 after antigen tests), equal to 5% of 23,775 swabs performed, of which 10,515 antigenic. Of the 1,187 new cases, 463 (39%) were asymptomatic. There are 34 deaths, with the total now equal to 11,219. There are 223 hospitalized in intensive care (-17 compared to yesterday), not in intensive care 2,264 (-44 compared to yesterday). There are 13,971 people in home isolation while the diagnostic swabs processed so far are 4,331,648 (+23,775 compared to yesterday), of which 1,485,880 were negative.



Lazio, 1,078 cases and 32 deaths


Today on over 17 thousand swabs in Lazio (+1.913) and over 19 thousand antigenic for a total of over 36 thousand tests, there are 1,078 positive cases (+139), 32 deaths (-2) and 1,579 cured. Cases are increasing, while deaths, hospitalizations and intensive care are decreasing. The ratio between positives and buffers is 6%, but if the antigenic substances are also considered, the percentage is 2%. The cases in Rome city are at 400. This was announced by the councilor for health Alessio D'Amato, who underlined: "The downward trend in the number of hospitalizations and intensive care continues". 



Veneto, 963 infections and 18 deaths


Veneto records 963 new Covid infections in the last 24 hours and 18 deaths. This was reported by the regional bulletin. The total number of infected people since the beginning of the epidemic thus rises to 410,000, that of victims to 11,299. Pressure has been falling for days in hospitals: 1,508 Covid patients are hospitalized (-38), of which 1,301 (-27) in normal hospital wards, and 207 (-11) in intensive care.



In Emilia-Romagna 642 new positives and 23 deaths


The new positives today in Emilia-Romagna are 642, while the deaths are 23. Active cases and hospitalizations are still decreasing (-49, even if intensive care marks +4). Vaccinations rise to one million and 557 thousand doses. Since the start of the Coronavirus epidemic, 367,071 cases of positivity have been recorded in the region. The swabs performed in the last 24 hours were 29,609 and the percentage of new positives on the number of swabs made since yesterday is 2.1%. There were 23 dead. In total, 12,843 deaths in the region since the beginning of the epidemic.



In Calabria 492 new infections and 9 deaths


In Calabria to date, 709,584 subjects have been subjected to tests for a total of 763,623 swabs performed (more tests can be performed on the same subject). The people who tested positive for Coronavirus are 59,197 (+492 compared to yesterday), the negative ones 650,387. These are the daily data relating to the Covid-19 epidemic reported by the Health Protection Department, which also record 45 people in intensive care (stable compared to yesterday), 271 recovered / discharged and another 9 deaths, which brings the total number of deaths from the beginning of the pandemic to 1,005.



264 new cases and two deaths in Sardinia


Contagions on the rise again in Sardinia: in the latest update of the Regional Crisis Unit, 264 new cases were detected, compared to 3,815 tests performed, with a positivity rate of 6.9%. Overall, cases of positivity to Covid-19 in Sardinia rise to 54,053 since the beginning of the emergency. A total of 1,179,003 swabs were performed. There are also two new deaths (1,374 in all). The number of people currently hospitalized in non-intensive wards remained stable at 371, while the number of patients (46) in intensive care was also unchanged. There are 17,038 people in home isolation and a total of 35,224 (+355) healed.



Abruzzo, 177 new positives and 6 deaths


In Abruzzo there are 177 new positives and 229 healed today and six deceased. In particular, there are 70873 positive cases of Covid 19 registered in Abruzzo since the beginning of the emergency. The death toll rises to 2391. The number of positive cases also includes 59926 cured (+229 compared to yesterday). The currently positives in Abruzzo are 8556 (-58 compared to yesterday). Since the start of the Coronavirus emergency, a total of 1004980 molecular swabs have been performed (+4962 compared to yesterday) and 406316 antigen tests (+2728 compared to yesterday) .The positivity rate, calculated on the sum of molecular swabs and antigen tests of the day , is equal to 2.3 per cent. 389 patients (-11 compared to yesterday) are hospitalized in non-intensive care; 42 (-3 compared to yesterday with 1 new hospitalization) in intensive care,while the other 8125 (-44 compared to yesterday) are in home isolation with active surveillance by the ASL.



36 cases and 2 deaths in Trentino


There are 2 deaths from Covid in Trentino. Even yesterday there were more discharges in hospitals than new arrivals (12 against 7): at the moment there are 100 hospitalized patients of which 26 in intensive care. On the contagion front, today there are 36 new cases positive for the molecular (out of 1,296 tests) and 57 to the antigenic (out of 1,120 rapid tests notified to the health authority). Vaccinations this morning were at 166,124, including 41,931 boosters. The overall figure also includes the 55,287 doses administered to over eighty-year-olds and those for the 70-79 and 60-69 age groups, respectively 39,587 and 24,464.



After three days of respite, the number of deaths from Covid in

Alto Adige

returns to rise

. In fact, in the last 24 hours a death has been recorded which brings the total number to 1,160. 56 of 1162 pcr molecular swabs and 51 of 10184 antigen tests were positive. To date, 25,936 nasal tests have been performed, of which 83 have been positive. To these must be added 257,980 'tampons' in schools, of which 277 positive results at first and 130 later confirmed with PCR. There are currently 96 hospitalizations (-3): 10 in intensive care (unchanged), 65 in normal wards (unchanged) and 21 in private clinics (-3). Currently there are 2460 South Tyroleans in quarantine.