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Milan, November 15, 2020 – Second Sunday from the red light district in Lombardy, starting on Friday, afterorange “technical” assigned since surveillance from the control room of the Ministry of Health-Iss, again expects a relaxation of anti-Covid measures. For days the Rt index it dropped to around 1.5 regionally and 1.2-1.3 in Milan, and even today there is a decline in the new positives: 8,060 (Yesterday 8,129), although with a slight increase in tampons: 38,701 those processed in the last 24 hours, compared to 35,550 yesterday. While the data relating to deceased, which today registers the highest figure since the beginning of the second wave: 181 died in 24 hours, yesterday was 158. Numbers which brings the total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic in the region to 19,367. But the most worrying figure remains the pressure on hospitals. Even today there is a further increase in patients admitted to intensive care: +20 against 16 yesterday (total 837 seats occupied), while in other departments 160 more people were hospitalized in the last 24 hours (total 7,781).
The data for November 15 in Italy
Contagions on the decline throughout Italy. The new positives are 33,979, but with 195,275 swabs, more than 32 thousand less than yesterday. Deaths remain stable at 546 (yesterday 544). Leading the ranking of the regions most affected by the virus is always the Lombardy with 8,060 new cases, follows the Piedmont with 4,021 positives and Lazio with 3,159.
Lombard data
Data on the contagion in Lombardy will be entered here as soon as the Region newsletter is published.
Ieo: Covid in Italy as of September 2019
If the official entry of the Coronavirus to our country is dated February 2020 and attributable to Mattia, patient 1 of Codogno, today it turns out that the Covid 19 was circulating in Italy since September 2019. The confirmation comes from a study ofMilan Cancer Institute and the University of Siena, which has the scientific director as the first signatory Giovanni Apolone, published in the Tumori Journal. Analyzing the samples of 959 people, all asymptomatic who had participated in the screening of lung cancer between September 2019 and March 2020, 11.6% (111 out of 959) had antibodies against coronavirus, of which 14% already in September, 30% in the second week of February 2020 and the highest number (53.2%) in Lombardy.
Fontana: Hospital de la Feria is our strength
If in the first wave thehospital in Fiera It had taken in few patients and ended up in the center of a fierce controversy, in the second wave it is proving to be a fundamental hub, so much so that the number of available places is constantly increasing. And already at the endand next week more may be active twenty to help particularly seriously ill patients with Covid-19. “The Fiera di Milano hospital, that I never wanted to build and use, that considered by some useless today is our strong point. Thanks to the health and nursing staff of all the Lombard hospitals who, moved by a spirit of solidarity, such as Dr. Malara (the anesthetist from Codogno who discovered patient 1, ed), they have come to carry out their mission even away from their teams, showing how the Lombard healthcare system is a great team. “ Attilio fontana on your Facebook profile.
Swab or serological test? When to do it
Unavailable in the first wave, in the second they became the cornerstone for circumscribing the virus and studying its evolution. The swab (or molecular test) and serological tests are indispensable tools to better track and analyze daily data on infection, which inevitably is also related to the number of swabs performed. But what are the differences between the two exams? the buffer used to diagnose presence of the virus in the body and then to find out if there is an ongoing infection. THE Serological tests are used instead to look for direct antibodies against the virus, to understand then if a person is You have already contacted Covid 19. Here’s a Vademecum on swab and serological test.
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