• Ats Sardegna, 500 health workers no vax

  • Agenas data: intensive care employment rate rises in 4 regions

  • ISS monitoring, the index falls but the incidence increases in 73 cases out of 100 thousand

  • Coronavirus: 7,270 new cases with 216,969 swabs and 30 deaths

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13 August 2021

The updated situation in Italy and in the world



Today in Italy there are 7,409 new cases with 225,486 swabs (positive index at 3.28%) and 45 deaths, according to data released by the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 7,270 cases with 216,969 swabs (3.3% rate) and 30 deaths.



In

Sicily there 

are 1,101 new cases of Coronavirus registered today. There are 819 new positives in

Tuscany

where today there are 4 new deaths. In

Veneto

771 new infections and one death were registered. There are 661

infections in

Lombardy

in the last 24 hours. In

Emilia-Romagna

still 656 cases and three deaths. In

Campania

the positives of the day are 622, the new deaths are three. In

Sardinia

400 new cases and three deaths. In

Puglia

361 new cases and one death. The

Piedmont

announced 280 new cases of persons tested positive for Covid-19. In

Calabria

239 new cases. In

Umbria there

are

179 new positives.

In the

Marches

171 new positives and two victims. In

Liguria

158 new cases. In

Friuli Venezia Giulia

109 new cases and one death. In

Abruzzo

95 new positives and two deaths. 62 new positives in

Trentino

. In

South Tyrol

there are 33 new cases of Covid-19. 



Rezza: wide circulation of variants, prudence and vaccines


"There is a wide circulation of highly transmissible variants, such as the delta variant, and also given the summer period which involves so many aggregations, it is good to maintain prudent behavior and rush to get vaccinated". This was stated by the director of prevention of the Ministry of Health Gianni Rezza in a video on the data of the

weekly monitoring

of Covid cases. Rezza confirmed that "the incidence of Covid cases is growing slightly this week too, which is fixed at 73, and RT tends to fall, 1.27,". The medical and intensive care areas are below the critical threshold at national".



Iss: complete vaccination effective at 96,82% against deaths


The effectiveness of the double dose of anti-Covid vaccines reaches 96.82% compared to unvaccinated, for the protection of mortality, a single dose protects 82.26. The data is in a slide that accompanies the weekly ISS-Ministry of Health monitoring and concerns the period 4 April - 8 August. For ICU admissions, full-cycle vaccinates are 97.16% protected, with a dose of 89.4. For hospitalizations, coverage reaches 94.7% among double-dose vaccinates, while for those with a single dose the value is 82.3.