[ad_1]
Once again, the number of new infections in Italy has increased significantly, to an unprecedented degree since March.
On Tuesday, 5,901 coronavirus infections were registered in the country, almost 1,300 cases more than on Monday, writes Ansa. The total number of infected people in the country so far has risen to 365,467.
The number of deaths increased by another 41 to 36,246. The number of patients in the intensive care unit increased from 62 to 514.
The number of new infections recorded per day was still below 1,000 on September 1 and just over 2,500 on October 1.
Currently, more than five thousand patients are treated in the hospital, 514 in the intensive care unit. The number of ventilator-connected patients increased by ten a day in the last week of September, by twenty a day in the first week of October, and then by thirty, and has now increased by sixty-four. Counting the dead and recovered, the number of registered patients exceeded 365,000.
According to a statement from the Union of Hospital Doctors, with such an increase in the epidemic curve, in two months intensive care units with more than 11,000 places will be filled. More than 77 percent of cases are due to a family infection.
The government has introduced restrictions for the first time since lifting the tough three-month restrictions in the spring. The provisions, which are still in effect for thirty days, include the closure of bars, cafes and discos at night at 9 p.m. to eliminate the crowds of young people in the streets.
Precautions were also called for in apartments to encourage people to wear masks among those who do not live under one roof. It is advised that in the homes there are no more than six people who do not live together. With this, they want to limit house parties, popular family gatherings, and guests.
We do not send police to private homes, we trust everyone’s responsibility, medical care is a shared dutyPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.
Between late February and mid-May, the coronavirus epidemic spread almost exclusively in the northern part of the country. The curve of the epidemic is now rising across Italy: the majority of patients, more than a thousand, were examined in one day in the province of Lombardy, followed by southern Campania, where hospitals were already full.
[ad_2]
