20,709 new cases and 684 deaths – Corriere.it

In Italy, at least since the start of the coronavirus epidemic 1,641,610 people (including the recovered and the dead) contracted the Sars-CoV-2 virus: i new cases am +20,709, + 1.3% compared to the previous day (yesterday they were +19,350), while deaths today am +684, + 1.2% (yesterday they were +785), for a total of 57,045 victims since February. the people recovered or discharged together they are 823,335: +38,740 those who came out of the Covid nightmare today, + 4.9% (yesterday they were +27,088). The positive current – the subjects who now have the virus – seem to be a total of 761,230, equal to -18,715 compared to yesterday, -2.4% (yesterday they were -8.526), ​​and they are visible in the fifth column from the right of the table. There decrease in current positives – are decreasing, with the minus sign in front for the sixth time in the second wave (see 11/23, 11/25 and 11/27, 11/30 and 12/1) – indicates that the healed, added to the deaths, they are in greater number than the new positives: since yesterday they are less than the total cured.

I tampons They were 207,143, or 25,043 more than yesterday when it was 182,100. While the positivity rate of the 10% (the approximation of 0.999%): means that of 100 swabs performed, 10 were positive; yesterday it was 10.6%. 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.

More infections in 24 hours with more tampons, compared to the day before. It returns above 20 thousand after two days below this threshold (see 11/30 and 12/1). But the ratio of cases to tampons drops from 10.06% to 10%. A small decrease in the percentage that still bodes well. There are signs of improvement. The virus transmission rate has also dropped. The next follow-up should confirm the decrease in RT, which went from 1.7 to 1.4 to 1.2 to 1.08 in 4 weeks – said the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza – in the Senate. I am sure that it will be able to drop below 1 shortly, the essential element to control the epidemic. It is true that now all regions tend to yellow, but woe to lower our guard! Be careful not to mistake the first ray of sunlight for a narrow exhaust, ‘Speranza stressed. The third wave just around the corner and without limitations to travel, especially at Christmas, living with Covid until the vaccine destined to fail. The delicate moment. If we are good – explains physicist Roberto Battiston – we could have Rt to zero in a month.

Pressure on the health system is relieved. I hospitalized patients with symptoms today are 32,454 (-357-2.4%; yesterday -376), while the most serious in intensive care am 3,616 (-47-1.3%; yesterday -81). Probably, part of the deaths occurred in the Covid wards, which caused a decrease in hospitalizations. These are conjectures because we have no data on this. According to the Agenas (National Agency for Regional Health Services) there has been a decrease in the places occupied in the intensive and ordinary care rooms in one week – from November 24 to December 1 – although they are always above the critical threshold : 48% of ordinary hospitalization places are now occupied, compared to 51% seven days ago, and 41% of intensive care places, compared to 43% on November 24.