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The number of new cases of Covid positivity verified in the last 24 hours in Sicily remains above a thousand compared to the 8,431 swabs processed (much less than yesterday when they were 9,525). According to the report of the Ministry of Health, the new infected are 1,363 (yesterday 1,423). There are 35 new victims, bringing the total to 663.
The number of hospitalized patients with symptoms has increased from 4 to 1,162 today. There are also ten other beds occupied in the intensive care wards for a total of 169. The total number of hospitalized is therefore 1,330. The number of citizens in home isolation increased (+1,210). The total of current positives exceeds twenty thousand and reaches 20,737. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 8,788 people have been discharged / cured.
Regarding the division by province, the highest number of new cases is found in Palermo with 459. It is followed by Catania with 406, Ragusa 137, Siracusa 116, Trapani 103, Messina 73. Caltanissetta with 53 new cases, Agrigento with 15 and Enna with one. .
Quick swabs in the car
„On Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, 8 in Catania and in many other Sicilian municipalities with populations of over 30 thousand inhabitants, the drive-in for rapid tests on the Coronavirus will be operational, with dedicated roads where the sample will be taken. Three centers have been installed in the capital of Etna: in the Amt di Nesima interchange car park in via Michele Amari, in the Due Obelischi car park in via Francesco Lo Jacono and in via Forcile in the Fontanarossa car park. In Paternò on Saturdays and Sundays you can go to the market area and on Monday in the open space adjacent to the municipal swimming pool. Finally, in Caltagirone, the civil protection area in Viale Cristoforo Colombo was chosen.
The costs of the pandemic
Due to Covid, this year all Italians will lose an average of almost 2,500 euros (precisely 2,484). To estimate the contraction in value added per inhabitant at the provincial level, we think of the CGIA Study Office of Mestre, which also reported another particularly alarming fact: although it will suffer a more contained reduction in GDP than all other macro areas of the country ( – 9 percent), the South will see GDP fall to the same level as in 1989. In terms of wealth, therefore, it will “regress” in 31 years. At the regional level, Molise, Campania and Calabria will return to the same level of real GDP reached in 1988 (32 years ago) and Sicily, no less than that of 1986.
