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July 16, 2021 "There are two important data: the number of municipalities with at least one case no longer decreases but is moving towards regrowth. In the previous weeks they were 2165, now they are 2267 municipalities. In many regions there is also an inversion and a regrowth ". This was stated by the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, at the press conference on the analysis of the data of the weekly monitoring of the control room. Most affected, he said, is the youth population between 20-29 and 10-19.



RT up to 0.92, hospitalizations also increase


The RT is growing, from 0.67 to 0.92%: there are regions that also go above 1 in the highest confidence interval: the projection on the next week is at 1.24% and also the Rt hospital is growing, said Silvio Brusaferro President of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, in the weekly press conference of the control room. The average age of the infected is 28 years.



Occupied 2% of beds


"The occupancy rate of beds in Italian hospitals is stable at 2%. The projections at present show, at the end of August, a potential growth in occupations of beds, but below the critical thresholds, with the possibility of exceeding 5-6%, that is, in any case hundreds of hospitalized people ", said the President of the Higher Institute of Health.



Delta effect on hospitalizations


not yet clear "The effect of the delta variant

on hospitalization

is not yet clear, we cannot make a precise estimate," Brusaferro said at a press conference.