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02 August 2021 The percentage of beds in Italian hospital wards occupied by Covid patients rises to 4%. So on August 1st there is a 1% growth compared to July 31st. This is what we read in the monitoring of the National Agency for Regional Health Services. The percentage had touched the minimum level of 2% and was "stable" until July 25, from 26 it began to rise, reflecting the increase in infections of the past weeks. Intensive care is also on the rise: 3% of places are occupied by Covid patients and the 1% increase, after weeks of stability at 2%, started on 30 July.



The data in March 


At the end of March, ICUs occupied by Covid patients, nationwide, were 41%, admissions in non-critical areas at 44%. Since then, thanks to the acceleration of the vaccination campaign, a steady decline that began, for a week now, is seeing a rise, in particular in some regions of the South.



The South 


Sardinia went from 5% to 9% in one week for places in intensive care. Lazio and Sicily follow with 5%. For Covid hospitalizations in ordinary wards, the growing regions are Sicily and Calabria, which in a week went up to 10% and 9%. Following Campania at 6%. The percentages for now do not exceed the new national parameters, the critical threshold is set at 15% for ordinary hospitalizations and 10% for intensive care. However, the Agenas monitoring shows an acceleration.



The North


The regions of the North, according to the data of 1 August, on the other hand, maintain almost all values ​​below or equal to the national ones, ie 3% for intensive care and 4% for hospitalizations.