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Rome, September 18, 2020 – Even today the newspaper bulletin of the Ministry of Health, with the advance of the epidemic of Coronavirus in Italy, reports an increase in new positives, despite fewer swabs being done compared to the previous day (here the data of yesterday September 17). In recent days there has also been an increase in hospitalizations in intensive therapy. But in Italy things are much better than in other European countries: first of all France, where yesterday the new infected exceeded 10 thousand and the dead reached 50. Great concern also in Britain, where a minister has not ruled out another confinement.
In our country there is always great attention to the world of school, after the reopening of September 14. And there is news of positivity. As to Ventimiglia, where one student tested positive: 21 classmates and 7 teachers were placed in home isolation for 14 days. Or a Bolzano, where it was a child who tested positive: 22 classmates and 7 teachers were quarantined. TO Polignano the opening of the school was postponed until September 28, while Palermo closed a nursery: it is the fourth. TO CorleoneOn the other hand, in Sicily, due to a significant increase in cases, the mayor, Nicolò Nicolosi, signed an ordinance that provides for the closure of schools at all levels from today until October 1. The bars, pubs, game rooms and betting rooms will not open after 10pm. For gyms, sports facilities and dance schools, the shutters will be closed before 20:00. Reatino for an outbreak in an RSA: 14 positives.
Covid Bologna, three positive high school students. Ninety people in isolation
Also important is the announcement of the Minister of Sports, Vincenzo Spadafora: “Thousand spectators at outdoor sporting events. “While on the diagnosis front, the blood test which predicts the course of the disease. Agreement EU-Sanofi for 300 million doses of the vaccine.
Covid, today’s data
According to the updates of the Ministry of Health, today the contagion curve goes back, with fewer swabs made: they are registered 1,907 new cases, its 99,839 swabs (against 101,773 yesterday). Mild decrease in deaths, 10 (It was 13 24 hours ago). For the data of the Regions, there are 224 cases in Lombardy, 193 in Lazio and 208 in Campania. High data also in Sicily (179), Veneto (176) and Emilia Romagna (121).
The numbers of the Regions
Emilia Romagna: 121 new positives
am 121 new contagion in Emilia Romagna, compared to yesterday when merano 110. Today’s newsletter on the spread of Covid also notes a death and talks about 71 asymptomatic patients from the regional detection and contact tracing activities. More than 9,600 swabs and more than 2,600 serological tests were performed. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic, 34,093 positive cases have been recorded in Emilia Romagna. Of the 121 new cases, 56 were already isolated at the time of the swab run and 70 were identified in known outbreaks. There are 29 new infections related to returns from abroad, for which the Region has provided two nasopharyngeal swabs during fiduciary isolation if they arrive from non-Schengen countries and one swab if they return from Greece, Spain, Croatia and Malta. . The number of cases returning from other regions is 8. The average age of new positives is currently 41.7 years. Of 71 new asymptomatic patients, 31 were identified through category tests introduced by the Region, 5 through prehospital tests, 33 through contact tracing, and in 2 cases through serological screening.
Lazio, 193 infections
Others 193 almost in Lazio “almost 11 thousand swabs“, reports the Councilor for Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato, highlighting that” in the evaluation of the ministry the value of Rt is 0.54 “. Of the new infections, 108 are in Rome. There are no new victims in the region in the last 24 hours In the Region there are currently 5,413 positive people, of which 476 are hospitalized: 459 in intensive care and 17 in intensive care, but there are 4,937 in home isolation. Today it has reached 13,982. Finally, the number of deaths so far is 889, while the total number of cured is 7,680.
Tuscany, 99 other cases
In Tuscany there are a total of 13,522 cases of positivity since the beginning of the epidemic, 99 more than yesterday (43 identified in the course of the screening and 56 in the detection activities). New cases are 0.7% more than the total of the previous day. The average age of the 99 cases today is about 44 years.
Veneto: 108 positives
There are 108 new cases of coronavirus registered in Veneto. To say that it is the Region’s bulletin that raises the total number of infected since the beginning of the emergency to 25,423. No deaths. 7,572 people remain in home isolation.
The other regions
After a few days today the Basilicata Returning to zero contagion: yesterday none of the 438 swabs tested tested positive. Rise of infections (especially seasonal) in South tyrol: 72 new positive cases were registered, compared to 11 yesterday (1,916 swabs). 39 other infections in Friuli Venezia and Giulia. On the other hand, 84 new cases are registered in Apulia, compared to the 3,773 tests carried out. In addition, 2 deaths were recorded: 1 in the province of Bari, 1 in the province of Taranto. Since the beginning of the emergency, 368,571 tests have been carried out and 6,836 people have tested positive. 4,273 are recovered patients; 1,986 are currently positive cases. Strong increase in infections also in Abruzzo: 54 new cases make sure with the tests of the last hours. It is one of the highest figures in the last four months. In the region there is also a recent death, an elderly man from Sulmona (L’Aquila): the death toll rises to 474. The positives are currently 47 more and amount to 679: the number of hospitalized patients is increasing. am 29 positive cases of 871 new diagnoses registered in the last 24 hours in Market: 10 in the province of Ascoli Piceno, 8 in the province of Pesaro Urbino, 7 in the province of Ancona, 1 in the province of Fermo and 3 outside the region. Currently positive people in Friuli Venezia Giulia there are 677 (15 more than yesterday): four patients are being cared for in intensive care, while 22 are hospitalized in other departments, and today 39 new infections have been detected but no new deaths were recorded (349 in total).
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