1,606 infections and 36 deaths, sharp decrease in hospitalizations



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the bulletin from today, Saturday December 26, Boxing Day, with updates on the diffusion of Coronavirus in Lombardy. In the last 24 hours the new positive cases are 1,606 (of which 66 weakly positive) of 15,337 swabs performed, with the 10.4% positive on the swabs made. Yesterday, the figure was 2,628 new infections out of 27,942. In total, 4,780,837 swabs have been made in Lombardy since the start of the pandemic. The daily death toll is down from yesterday: there have been 36 deaths in the last 24 hours (yesterday had been 105), for a total since the start of the pandemic of 24,818 official deaths only in Lombardy.

The situation in the hospitals of Lombardy

The updates on the situation of hospitalizations and intensive care in Lombardy, essential for monitoring the progress of the epidemic, describe a situation that is still improving. In the last hours the balance of hospital admissions decreased 137 units, bringing the total to 3,839 (yesterday it was 3,976). The number of admissions to intensive care units is also decreasing: the balance is 9 patients less than yesterday (when the balance between new admissions and discharges was one less hospitalization), for a total of 513 hospitalized people. The number of healed / discharged patients continues to grow, reaching 387,049: 658 people have managed to overcome the disease in the last 24 hours.

The new positives in the provinces

Regarding the Lombard provinces, there are 499 new positive cases of coronavirus in the province of Milan, including 313 in the city. There are 141 new positives in the province of Monza and Brianza, 341 in that of Varese, 131 in the province of Brescia, 125 in that of As and 30 in the province of Pavia. The province of Bergamo registered 97 new infections, while 68 are in Lecco, 11 new infections in the province of I gave it, 26 in that of Cremona, 10 infections in the province of Sondrio and finally 96 to Mantua.

Waiting for the day of the vaccine: first injections in Lombardy

Tomorrow, Sunday, December 27, the arrival of the first doses of the Covid vaccine in Lombardy is expected. The vials will arrive around 11 at the Niguarda in Milan. The first vaccinated will be two hospital employees, together with the presidents of the medical orders and authorized representatives of the scientific world. In the afternoon the vaccine will reach all the provinces.



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