news, contagion data and updates today October 21, 2020

The ratio between positive swabs and coronavirus in Rome and Lazio increased to 5.9% compared to 5% yesterday. “These are the most difficult days, we need rigor and respect for the distance”, Said the Councilor for Health in Lazio Alessio D’Amato on the day that more than 20 thousand swabs were performed throughout the region.

According to the data of October 21, in Rome there are 543 new cases of Covid while in Lazio as a whole there are 1,219. On the other hand, 16 deaths and 133 recovered. “We expect an increase in the value of RT, especially in the provinces, Rome is holding. The hospital network has entered the seventh phase, approximately 3,000 places reserved for Covid are planned“D’Amato emphasized.

ASL data from Rome and the province of October 21

In Asl Rome 1 There are 177 cases in the last 24 hours and they are cases with a family link or contact of an already known case. There are five deaths of 76, 88, 91, 91 and 93 years with pathologies.

In Asl Rome 2 There are 233 cases and there are eighty cases with a family link or contact of a known case and seventy-eight cases identified on the recommendation of the GP. There are five deaths of 58, 61, 70, 72 and 102 years with pathologies.

In Asl Rome 3 There are 133 cases and they are cases with family ties or contacts of an already known case. There is an 88-year-old death with pathologies.

In Asl Rome 4 There are 35 cases and these are four cases with a family link or contact of an already known case and seven cases identified on the recommendation of the GP. Two cases were identified in the prehospital phase.

In Asl Rome 5 There are 107 cases of this, it is about nineteen cases with family ties or contact of a case already known. Eleven cases linked to the Nomentana Hospital cluster where the epidemiological investigation is underway. There is a 57-year-old death with pathologies.

In Asl Rome 6 There are 88 cases and there are thirty-eight cases with family ties or contacts of an already known case. There is a 79-year-old death with pathologies.

Infections in the other cities of Lazio

In the provinces there are 446 cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours. In Latin ASL there are one hundred and one new cases and they are cases with a family link or contact of an already known case. There are two deaths of 69 and 84 years due to pathologies.

In Asl from Frosinone One hundred and fifty-nine new cases are registered and these are cases with a family link or contact with an already known case. There is an 83-year-old death with pathologies.

In Viterbo ASL Ninety-nine new cases are registered and there are fifty-nine cases with a family link or contact with an already known case.

In Rieti ASL there are eighty-seven new cases and of these sixty-seven with links to the RSA San Raffaele cluster in Borbona where the epidemiological investigation is being carried out. Twenty cases with family ties or contacts of a known case

Covid cases throughout Lazio since the beginning of the pandemic

In Lazio, to date, the current positive cases are 17,403. Of these, 1,226 are hospitalized, in addition to 129 patients in intensive care.

There are 16048 patients in home isolation, 9913 recovered, while deaths are 1054. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of cases examined is 28370.

In Lazio 30 ambulances ‘blocked’ awaiting hospitalization

Right now 118 ambulances are ‘locked’ outside various emergency rooms in Lazio waiting for patients to be hospitalized. Covid suspects would also be among the patients on board. You learn from sanitary sources. One of the ambulances would be detained starting at 11 pm last night in front of the Casilino polyclinic in Rome. Faced with the second wave of Coronavirus, the Ares 118 at the beginning of October increased the 250 ambulances it had available in the regional territory with 20 vehicles. Other formalities are underway to further increase the fleet.

In Lazio, interventions in more than a thousand schools, 1,993 positive

Report on surveillance activity in schools: 69,757 serological tests were carried out on school personnel, teaching and non-teaching staff. ASL intervened in 1,077 institutions. There were 75 schools with an outbreak. The total of positive cases found have been, to date, 1,993, of which 1,670 students, mainly upper secondary and 323 among school personnel. The schools closed for sanitation by the ASL were 9 “. This was announced by the COVID-19 Crisis Unit of the Lazio Region.

In Lazio more calls to 118, 25% suspected cases of Covid

Calls to 118 in Lazio increase and in the last month 25% of these refer to cases of suspected Covid. According to what we learned, in fact, compared to a year ago, requests for intervention for infectious and respiratory diseases have grown considerably, going from 2% in October 2019 to 25% today, the latter people who fear they have contracted the coronavirus. So it is currently suspected that one in every 4 requests is Covid. Furthermore, compared to October last year, general requests for intervention have increased by 10%.

Rome, the online booking of drive-ins is underway

“The experimentation of the online drive-in reservation system begins today: from 2:00 p.m. it will be possible to reserve the pad in one of the following drive-ins in the Lazio Region: Asl Roma 1: Santa Maria della Pietà, Via Eugenio Mattei 72; Asl Roma 2: Centro Carni, Via Palmiro Togliatti 1200 or IRCCS Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 354; Asl Roma 3: Forlanini’s former garrison, Piazza Carlo Forlanini “. This was announced by the Covid-19 Crisis Unit of the Lazio Region, explaining that the experimentation will last a week.

Lazio, 311 doctors available for quick swabs in studies

The “concept of curfew has been adopted in Lombardy and is also symbolically important because it takes a turn”, but Lombard’s CTS had pushed for a new closure of the facilities “at 21 but even earlier”: virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco , member of the regional scientific committee, interviewed by Radio Popolare.

“We had asked for the closure or in any case the substantial reduction of moments such as dinners,” he explained, following the principle of “avoiding all unnecessary contacts by keeping school and work activity fixed, harming only the entire chain of restaurants.”

More hospital beds

In fact, there will be 1,035 new beds available for Covid patients for a total of 2,518 beds, of which 503 for intensive and sub-intensive therapies. The San Filippo Neri (120 places) becomes a multidisciplinary hospital also with Covid functions, while the capacities of the Umberto I and Spallanzani Polyclinic increase respectively 274 and 278 beds. Covid Columbus will have 259 more seats.

Rome, the infected in the Caritas shelter amount to 35

The situation at the Caritas hostel in Rome “continues to be of great concern. Currently, of the 72 guests, 35 are infected with Covid. The Lazio region will begin transferring guests to health centers the same day.” This was reported by Caritas of Rome. 4 operators who serve the shelter also tested positive.

The mayor of Fiumicino donates books to students on Covid and social networks

Starting today, the books donated by Mayor Esterino Montino, dealing respectively with the issues of the coronavirus, social media and the Constitution, are distributed to the students of all schools in Fiumicino. “In this particular year, for the students of our territory, characterized first by months of closed confinements at home to study with distance education and now by rules about the spacing and use of masks in the classroom, I wanted to give them books that I hope they will appreciate ”, says Montino.

Article updated at 5:10 pm on October 21