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Two things are clear about this “second wave” of cases coronavirus in ItalyThe first is that if you look too closely at daily changes, you run the risk of losing sight of the big picture; The second is that if you look at it from the right distance, and taking into account what is around that frame, Italian photography tells a still reassuring reality, compared to many European countries where the virus gallops faster. tall.
The Sunday bulletin of the Ministry of Health says that the new cases in the last 24 hours are 1,587: about 40 less than the previous day but with a decreasing number of swabs (83,000, on Saturday there were 103,000). The positives on the total of tests are 1.9%, in trend with the last month, when the daily cases have returned steadily above a thousand but never exceeding 2000. Deaths fell again yesterday: 15 people died from Covid, a figure more in line with recent weeks after the 24 victims who had worried on Saturday.
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Coronavirus in Madrid, hundreds of people in the square against the new restrictions: photos
Opening the lens a bit, the last two weeks say that on average Italy has around 33 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, with 222 people in intensive care and 2,365 currently hospitalized: apart from Germany, Poland and some others, the countries surrounding the peninsula are experiencing a more serious condition. There Spain, which two days ago had introduced a series of severe restrictions on mobility in 37 health areas of Madrid (where yesterday hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the “class” choice of the local government, given that the new areas red are inhabited especially by low-income families and immigrants), has a disease rate ten times higher than in Italy, five times the number of people hospitalized and six times the number of people hospitalized in intensive care. There France, which for days has been constantly traveling over 10,000 new positives every 24 hours (with a record of 13,500 on Saturday), has had 185 cases per 100,000 people in the last two weeks, almost 6 times in Italy, and has seen the age of the sick rise and their conditions worsen.
Further northeast, the picture got complicated: Belgium, Holland, Austria and Hungary they have broken the part of 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, the Switzerland is over 60, while Portugal and UK – the latter is already struggling with the hypothesis of a national blockade “that we cannot exclude”, say the authorities – both are around 70. The second wave has also affected Eastern Europe: in the Czech Republic the virus continues one step higher that the French and the government are considering “declaring a state of emergency” in order to reintroduce stricter measures, after making indoor masks mandatory again; The highest rate of Covid deaths on the continent belongs to Romania, while Montenegro surpasses Spain in new cases. And then there is Sweden, which has never closed: today it has a level of new positives equal to the Italian one, but for many months it had much higher numbers than the Nordic countries. The dead in the world are 960,000: soon they will reach one million.
September 21, 2020 (change September 21, 2020 | 00:29)
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