The epidemic curve in Italy is still rising, as has been recorded for a few days.
There are 21,085 new cases of Covid
in the last 24 hours,
against 22,527 yesterday
but above
all 17,364 of last Friday
.
The processed swabs are 151,607 (yesterday 165,415) with a
positivity rate that rises from 13.6% to 13.9%
.
There
are 49 deaths today (yesterday 60)
, for a total of 176,824 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Intensive
care units drop by 4 units
(yesterday -8) and are now 134 with 15 admissions per day;
Ordinary hospitalizations
also fell , 37 less (yesterday -66)
, for a total of 3,313.
The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are 17.003 (yesterday 22.835) for a total that rises to 21.668.862.
The currently positive are 4,031 more (yesterday -372) and rise to 416,766
, of which 413,319 in home isolation.
This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
The region with the highest number of cases today is Lombardy with 3,661 infections, followed by Veneto (+3.160), Lazio (+2.039), Campania (+1.636) and Emilia Romagna (+1.526).
The total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic rises to 22,262,452.
The updated situation in Italy and in the world
Rezza, Ministry of Health: The incidence rises slightly, hospitalizations stable. Making vaccines adapted to variants
"This week we observe a slight reversal of the trend in the incidence rate of Covid-19 cases in our country, which dates back to 215 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. Rt, on the other hand, remains substantially stable, at around 0.91%, below. below the epidemic threshold ".
This was stated by Gianni Rezza, general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, in the video commenting on the weekly data.
"With regard to the occupancy rate of places in the medical and intensive care areas - he continued - we are respectively 5.3% and 1.4%, therefore below the critical threshold; the rate is stable compared to the previous week".
"Even if the speed of viral circulation is still relatively high, the vaccines show their ability to protect against the most severe forms of disease and hospitalization. So it is important to renew the recommendation to carry out booster doses with vaccines adapted to circulating variants" , says the Director General of Prevention at the Ministry of Health.