16,377 new cases and 672 deaths – Corriere.it

In Italy, at least since the start of the coronavirus epidemic 1,601,554 people (including the recovered and the dead) contracted the Sars-CoV-2 virus: i new cases am +16,377, + 1% compared to the previous day (yesterday they were +20,648), while deaths today am +672, + 1.2% (yesterday they were +541), for a total of 55,576 victims since February. the people recovered or discharged in total there are 757,507: +23,004 those who came out of the Covid nightmare today, + 3.1% (yesterday they were +13,642). The positive current – the subjects who now have the virus – are in total 788,471, equal to – 7,300 compared to yesterday, -0.9% (yesterday they were +6,463), and they are visible in the fifth column from the right of the table. There decrease in current positives – they are decreasing and with the minus sign in front for the fourth time in November (see 11/23, 11/25 and 11/27) – indicates that the cured, added to the deaths, are in greater number than the new positives. Good sign if there weren’t so many deaths.

Regarding the situation of this month ending today, in the last 30 days the cases (updated to yesterday) were 800,953: 48.3% men and 51.7% women (with a median age of 48 years). 22,712 health workers were infected and 12,904 people who died, according to data from the integrated surveillance Covid-19, published by the Higher Institute of Health (Iss).

I tampons They were 130,524, which is 46,410 less than yesterday when it was 176,934. While the positivity rate of the 12.5%: it means of every 100 swabs performed, more than 12 were positive; yesterday it was 11.7%. This percentage gives an idea of ​​the trend of infections, regardless of the number of tests performed. Here is the map of contagion in Italy.

Infections decrease within 24 hours, compared to fewer swabs (on Mondays the number of tests is the lowest of the whole week, as is the analysis on Sunday). Today’s cases are below 20,000 for the first time this month– To see a number of daily positives below the 20,000 threshold, you must redo Monday October 26 (there were 17,012 with a rate of 13.6%). Good news, although the tampon case report rises to 12.5% ​​from 11.7% yesterday. We recall that last Monday the cases were 22,930 with a rate of 15.4%. We are far from the peak of November 13 (there were more than 40,000 with a rate of 16%), but to keep the epidemic under control it is necessary to drop from five to ten thousand daily positives: only with these numbers can contact processing be resumed , since the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco.