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Between the date of February 20, when the first Italian patient was reported, and March 31, the increase was 38.7 percent, 25,354 deaths more than the average for the same period in the previous five years, according to the Institute. National Statistical Office of Italy (Istat) and the Supreme Institute of Public Health (ISS).
Of the approximately 25,300 deaths, “approximately 13,700 deaths are directly attributable to Covid-19 disease,” the report said.
According to experts, for the other 11,600 deaths, only three possible causes can be deduced from the available data, even if the causes are in some way related to the pandemic.
A part of the deaths, not quantified, were directly attributable to Covid-19, but without the deaths being proven, so they were not presumably included in the statistics. A second, also unquantified, part of the deaths was presumably caused “indirectly” by Covid-19, such as “kidney or heart failure,” experts say, adding that these, too, are patients who were not tested. of the virus.
The deaths of a third of the deceased patients were caused for the first time by a crisis in the overburdened hospital system of patients with Covid-19, as well as by the fear of being hospitalized in the most affected areas, according to the communication. The last areas are the outermost regions of northern Italy, where death rates have increased at an extraordinary rate: in Bergamo, +568 percent more people died in March 2020 than the five-year average, 391 percent in Cremona, 371 percent in Lodi and 291 percent in Brescia. increases.
According to Istat, the figures are based on data provided by 6,866 (87%) of the 7,904 municipalities in Italy. ORIn Italy, almost 29,000 died and about 210,000 became infected with Covid-19 disease on Monday.
Between February 20 and March 31, 13,710 people died in Italy as a result of Covid-19. The proportion of men was higher in all ages, except those 0-19 years. Most of the deceased patients also suffered from other diseases.
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