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Usual drop in testing over the weekend: 81,723 swabs processed (99,108 yesterday) with 1,365 positives; Positive / swab ratio 1.67% (yesterday 1.45%). The patients with symptoms are 1,251 (+83); The number of people admitted to intensive care also increased by 7 for a total of 86
Usual drop in testing over the weekend: 81,723 swabs processed (99,108 yesterday) with 1,365 positives; Positive / swab ratio 1.67% (yesterday 1.45%). The patients with symptoms are 1,251 (+83); The number of people admitted to intensive care also increased by 7 for a total of 86
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Today, coronavirus infections in Italy detected by a positive swab are 1,365 (compared to 1,444 yesterday). Four victims, while yesterday there was one. The total number of coronavirus cases in Italy now stands at 268,218, the victims at 35,477. Currently there are 24,205 positive people, with an increase of 1,049 in 24 hours.
The national increase in cases is + 0.51% (yesterday + 0.54%). Usual drop in testing over the weekend: 81,723 swabs processed (99,108 yesterday) with 1,365 positives; Positive / swab ratio 1.67% (yesterday 1.45%). In today’s bulletin it is specified that the Basilicata Region will report the number of swabs and cases analyzed today only tomorrow, even if overall the region remains below 700 swabs per day, so it should not affect significantly. The patients with symptoms are 1,251 (+83); The number of people admitted to intensive care also increased by 7 for a total of 86.
New cases especially in: Campania 270; Lombardy 235; Lazio 156; Veneto 109; Emilia Romagna 109; Tuscany 98; Puglia 69; Piedmont 60; Liguria 53. On the Lombardy curve + 0.23% (yesterday + 0.29%) with 12,863 swabs (yesterday 18,701) and 235 positives; positive ratio / swabs 1.82% (yesterday 1.54%); 99,940 infected in total; hospitalized +9 (194); intensive care +2 (20); 3 dead.
The latest ISS survey, in the usual Covid-19 Integrated Surveillance Bulletin, reports a new increase in the cumulative incidence of new cases: 14.93 per 100,000 inhabitants in the August 10-23 period, it was 9, 65 in the previous period (3-16 August). In the same period, the circulation of the virus in the national territory increased, with a decrease in infections imported from abroad (now 20.8% of the total compared to 27.2% in the previous period). Consequently, there is a sharp increase in infections imported from other Italian regions: the figure went from 2.3% to 15.7%.
Finally, the reduction in the average age of those infected continues, falling in the last week of the survey to only 29 years: the lowest since the beginning of the epidemic. The situation, the authors of the report underline, refers to infections contracted “mainly in the first half of August.”
