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It was only a matter of time, and it was already understood by the advance of the infections. Now here we are, the record has been broken: never like in the week between Saturday, September 26 and yesterday, in Sicily there have been so many cases of coronavirus. The physiological threshold of a thousand: 1020, to be exact, has been broken down for a total of 7,596 cases. The highest ever reached was 869, reached between March 21 and 28, when the epidemic was at its peak, but we were locked up, all at home. Now, not really.
It is also true that this is not only correct to underline, but also a duty, to reassure and seriously understand the trend, that those 869 infections were reached against 8213 swabs, an absolutely “ridiculous” figure compared to the number of examinations that were perform today.
Back then, positives were around 10% of the tests performed, today it has reached 1020 but compared to more than 38,000 buffersTherefore, those infected are around 2.70%: a big difference, mainly because now asymptomatic patients are also tested, unlike what happened in March.
However, admissions increased even more than the previous weeks: 322 in hospital (+67), 20 in ICU (+7). About 5% of Covid patients end up in a hospital in Sicily, about 0.6% in intensive care. Eleven deaths in 7 days, and since April there has not been such a strong increase.
Even the ISS, in a sense, had confirmed how the island was unfortunately, among the worst regions in Italy. After Piedmont (1.22) and together with Campania, in fact, the island has the highest contagion rate in Italy: 1.19. In general, the national RT is above 1 (1.01). Therefore, in Sicily it is above average.
“The virus is now circulating throughout the country. An increase in new cases reported in Italy for the ninth consecutive week is confirmed with a cumulative incidence in the last 14 days of 34.2 per 100,000 inhabitants (period 14 / 9-27 / 9 ) (vs 31.4 per 100 thousand inhabitants in the period 7 / 9-20 / 9) ”, underlines the weekly monitoring report prepared by the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health, referring to week 21 to September 27. There is also a slight increase in the mean age of cases this week (42 years compared to 41 the previous week).
Eight Regions “reported an increase in the number of diagnosed cases compared to the previous week”, while “the percentage of new cases imported from abroad continues to decline (5.7% vs 8% last week) and from other places Region / PA (1.7% vs 3.3% the previous week) “. On the other hand, the percentage of cases detected through contact tracing activities remained stable (35.8% of new cases) and there was a slight increase in the percentage of cases detected through screening activities (28.2% vs 27.6% the week before). 29.6% of the cases were identified by the appearance of symptoms and in 6.5% the diagnosis was not reported “.
“Now we see a small peak of cases that are growing again, a better situation than neighboring countries, but that to some extent begins to be an alarm signal,” said the director general of the Ministry of Health, Giovanni Rezza, during his speech. in the digital edition of the Bologna Medical Sciences Festival. “In Europe, Italy is currently one of the countries with a better situation than, for example, France and Spain in particular – he says – The case curve is increasing in the United Kingdom, even in the countries of Eastern Europe it is quite high, in short, there is a situation that undoubtedly must be kept under control ”.
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