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The decline in coronavirus infections in Italy continues, below 1,000. The increase in the last 24 hours was 996, compared to 1365 yesterday. On the other hand, the number of victims increases, six in one day (yesterday there were four), for a total of 35,483 deaths. This is what emerges from the data of the Ministry of Health.
The collapse of new cases is certainly related to the reduced number of swabs made yesterday: 58,518, when yesterday 81,723 and two days 99,108 were processed (record number). The patients recovered or discharged are 207,653 (yesterday they were +312, today -883, an anomalous figure due to a recalculation carried out by the Veneto region). The number of patients in intensive care is increasing: they are 94, +8 compared to yesterday.
Meanwhile, for the first time, zero positives were found in rapid tests at Fiumicino airport. «It is an encouraging result. To date, since August 16, 10,589 tests have been carried out at the Rome Fiumicino airport alone, while 3,635 have been carried out at Ciampino. Of the travelers evaluated, 59.8% are residents in the Lazio region, 26% are residents in other regions and 14.2% are residents abroad. The service that is being carried out with Aeroporti di Roma is useful for the security of the country ”. This was stated by the Minister of Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato.
Ricciardi: “Accelerate with the wrong and dangerous vaccine”
“Science had predicted very well” the increase in cases but in France “it is the politicians who have not listened.” To write it on Twitter is Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and professor of Hygiene at the Catholic University of Rome, publishing the news of the alarm of the French Prime Minister Jean Castex who accuses scientists of not having foreseen the ‘boom ‘Cases in France, quadrupled compared to a month ago, which yesterday exceeded 6 thousand cases in 24 hours.
Ricciardi defines as “incorrect and dangerous” the decision that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering to accelerate the green light for a vaccine against Covid-19, even without waiting for the end of phase III clinical trials as they explain The commissioner of the institution, Stephen Hahn, in an interview with the ‘Financial Times’. “For vaccines – warns Ricciardi in a tweet – safety must be demonstrated even before efficacy. It is not possible to deviate from the appropriate methods and times.
Lombardy
Today in Lombardy there have been 135 new cases of coronavirus, of which 20 ‘weakly positive’ and 8 after serological tests, and 2 deaths. In total, since the beginning of the emergency, more than 100,000 infections have been recorded, while the deaths are 16,865. The swabs performed were 9,866 (total total: 1,596,833), while 10 healed / discharged (total total: 76,258, of which 1,286 were discharged and 74,972 recovered). ICU patients increased by 2 units (22 in total), while hospitalized patients by one (195). Yesterday, compared to 12,863 swabs, there were 235 positives and 3 deaths
Piedmont
There are 26,834 patients recovered from the coronavirus in Piedmont (+14 compared to yesterday): 3362 (no change) Alessandria, 1606 (+4) Asti, 848 (no change) Biella, 2555 (no change) Cuneo, 2400 (no change) Novara, 13,759 (+8) Turin, 1135 (+2) Vercelli, 986 (no change) Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, as well as 181 (no change) from other regions. Another 469 are “improving”, that is, negative on the first test swab, post-illness and awaiting the result of the second. In the afternoon, the Crisis Unit of the Region did not report the death of a positive person in the Covid-19 test. Therefore, the total is still 4,146 deaths who tested positive for the virus: 681 in Alessandria, 256 Asti, 208 Biella, 399 Cuneo, 373 Novara, 1834 Turin, 223 Vercelli, 132 Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in addition to 40 residents outside of the region, but died in Piedmont. Regarding infections, they amounted to 32,881 (+37 compared to yesterday, of which 25 asymptomatic). In total, at the provincial level they are: 4172 in Alessandria, 1919 Asti, 1076 Biella, 3104 Cuneo, 3007 Novara, 16.400 Turin, 1555 Vercelli, 1182 Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in addition to 284 residents outside the region, but in charge of Piedmont health establishments. The 182 remaining cases are pending and territorial assignment. There are 7 hospitalized in intensive care (+2 compared to yesterday). There are 98 hospitalized patients who are not in intensive care (+ 13 compared to yesterday). There are 1,327 people in home isolation. The diagnostic swabs processed so far are 587,908 of which 328,107 were negative.
Liguria
There are 44 new positive patients for covid-19 in Liguria. In particular, ASL 3 in Genoa has detected 14 new cases: 4 returning from another region, 4 contacts from a case, and 6 emerging from detection activity. Another 30 cases were identified by the ASL 5 of La Spezia: one was returning from a trip, 8 were found thanks to detection activities and 21 are contacts of a South American citizen and all are part of the same community.
Lazio
The new positives in Lazio diminish slightly. “Of the more than 13,000 tampons today, 148 cases are registered (yesterday there were 156, again about 13,000 tampons, ed) of which 75 are in Rome”, announces the Regional Health Councilor, Alessio D’Amato, specifying that no deaths have been registered in the last 24 hours and that “a prevalence of return cases is confirmed (around 44% of the total) while the cases linked to Sardinia are decreasing (around 34%)”.
Emilia romagna
One hundred and seventeen more positive than yesterday, of which 57 asymptomatic identified as part of the regional contact tracing and detection activities – out of more than 6000 smears performed – and 4 deaths, one in the province of Piacenza, one in that of Reggio Emilia , one in Modena and another in Bologna. Intensive care patients dropped to 9 (-2), 106 hospitalized in other Covid wards (+7 compared to yesterday). These are the main data on coronavirus registered today at 12 in Emilia Romagna: since the beginning of the epidemic in the Region, 31,922 positive cases have been registered. Active cases, that is, the number of real patients, are now 2,977 (109 more than those registered yesterday).
Tuscany
In Tuscany, there are 11,858 cases of positivity for coronavirus, 73 more than yesterday (20 identified in the course of the screening and 53 of the detection activities). Today there are no new deaths. New cases are 0.6% more than the total of the previous day. Those cured grew by 0.02% and reached 9,143 (77.1% of all cases). The tests carried out reached 539,518, 4,438 more than yesterday. The current positives are 1,574 today, + 4.7% compared to yesterday. Today there are no new deaths. These are the data – verified today at 12 o’clock based on requests from the National Civil Protection – referring to the advance of the epidemic in the region. The average age of 73 cases today is approximately 38 years (32% are under 26, 29% are between 26 and 40, 25% are between 41 and 65, 14% are over 65) and, in terms of states clinical, 63% were asymptomatic, 25% pauci-symptomatic. Of the 73 current positivities, 11 cases may be linked to returns from abroad, of which 1 for vacation reasons (Croatia). 5 cases can be linked to returns from other Italian regions (3 Sardinia, 2 Emilia-Romagna). A case referring to a citizen residing outside the region whose positivity was notified in Tuscany. 36% of the cases is a contact linked to a previous case.
Campania
There are 184 new cases of coronavirus in Campania in the last 24 hours, of which 86 from people returning from the trip (35 cases from Sardinia, 51 from foreign countries), compared with 5,783 swabs. The data comes from the Crisis Unit of the Region and brings the total number of infections to 7,066, compared to a total of swabs equivalent to 419,261. There are no new deaths for the third day in a row, so the total remains at 445, but none even recovered, so this total is still 4,412, of which 4,407 are fully cured and 5 clinically recovered.
Puglia
There are 38, and therefore a decrease compared to yesterday, the new cases of positivity of covid 19 today in Puglia facing, however, a series of tests, 1974, in decline. This was announced by the Region with the daily epidemiological bulletin issued based on information from the director of the Department of Health Promotion, Vito Montanaro. The new infections affect the province of Bari in 28 cases, the province of Bat in 2, the province of Foggia in 6, the province of Lecce in 1, while 1 is from outside the region. No deaths were recorded. Yesterday there were 69 new cases out of 2708 swabs. Since the beginning of the emergency, 305,020 tests have been carried out. 4,040 patients were recovered (+11 compared to yesterday) and 844 currently positive cases (+27) of which 123 were hospitalized (+1). Of the total positives currently, 0.8% are in intensive care and 13.7% are hospitalized. The others are at home. The number of deaths remains stable at 556. The total number of positive Covid cases in Puglia since the beginning of the emergency is 5,440, divided as follows: 1,890 in the province of Bari; 442 in the province of Bat; 706 in the province of Brindisi; 1,377 in the province of Foggia; 670 in the province of Lecce; 313 in the province of Taranto; 39 attributed to residents outside the region; 3 province of unknown residence. The average age of the cases is 56 years. 39.7% of the cases refer to patients between 19 and 50 years of age. Asl’s prevention departments have activated all procedures for the acquisition of anamnestic and epidemiological information, with the aim of tracing close contacts.
Sicily
There are 26 new cases of coronavirus in Sicily in the last 24 hours. This is what the newsletter of the Ministry of Health reports. Two are migrants, guests in Lampedusa and Catania. There are currently 1,125 positives of which 70 are hospitalized (+2), 10 in intensive care and 1045 in home isolation, for a total of 4,317 cases since the beginning of the epidemic. The healed amount to 2,906 (+15). The number of deaths remains unchanged: 286. In the provinces there are 2 new positives in Caltanissetta, 7 in Catania of which a migrant and a person who has returned from Greece, 1 from Enna, 1 Messina, 7 Palermo of which 1 migrant and 3 in Ragusa, 4 in Syracuse of which 3 returned from Malta and 1 in Trapani
