Covid, Iss: “The curve decreases, but we must not relax”

11/28/2020 Health, Italy



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The the curve is decreasing me positive signs they also come from less pressure on hospital wards and in intensive care “where the curve goes towards flattening but is still very significant.”

Still concerned about the incidence after 7 days “still high” (321 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants). further 9 regions are at high risk for more than three weeks, while the daily number of new cases’ if not diminished rapidly becomes a critical factor“Take stock of the epidemiological situation in Italy in COVID-19 is the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, who, together with the president of the Superior Council of Health, Franco Locatelli, held a press conference at the Ministry of Health to analyze the last tracking content. And Brusaferro warns: the fact that “the transmission speed is slowing down and that for the first time we see that the incidence deviates slightly in its values ​​calculated in 14 days” and this throughout the country, although with differences between territories, does not means that we should relax and that we should relax “because the overload in the national health system in many regions it is still high. Meanwhile, according to the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health, there are 26,323 positive swabs in the last 24 hours while the victims are 686. The total of cases is now 1,564,532, 54,363 deaths. The positives are currently 789,308 (+1,415), the cured 720,861 (+24,214), according to the Civil Protection website.

Intensive therapy for Covid they have dropped 20 units in the last 24 hours, and the places occupied now in resuscitation are 3,762. Admissions in the ordinary wards registered a negative balance of 385 units, which reduced the number of patients to 33,299. There are now 752,247 people (+1,820) in home isolation. Among the regions with the most positive daily mattresses, Lombardy with 4,615, then Veneto with 3,498, Campania with 2,729, Emilia Romagna with 2,172, Piedmont with 2,157, Lazio with 2,070. The coronavirus swabs made in Italy in the last 24 hours are 225,940, with a nearly 11.7% positivity rate, approximately 1.1% less than the previous day. The results obtained, Locatelli stresses, should only serve “as an incentive.” “We still need – he says – wide margins for improvement. Deaths will be the last to decrease and in the meantime it is necessary to avoid a careless message, particularly for regions that change to less marked colors.

For this reason, Brusaferro points out, “we have to continue to drastically reduce physical interactions between people. Need avoid all aggregation opportunities and limit as much as possible the number of people who meet in their own homes. Meetings must be prevented and avoided in every way, ‘otherwise the numbers start anew. Hence also the recommendation for a Christmas that cannot be like the others, as well as the New Year.

The president of the Higher Institute of Health later warns about Rt index reading: even if a little over 1 leads to an increase in cases. The average age of infections is also growing, which today is 48 years (more warning sign for the elderly) while the average age of the deceased exceeds 80 years, with subjects suffering from 3 or more pathologies. Finally, the General Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, speaking at the Extraordinary Digital Congress of the Italian Pediatric Society (Sip), points out that “we have not created a high percentage of the immune population for which it has automatically reached a wave peaks and it is exhausted “, in fact, he explains,” we only truncated the height of the first wave with harsh enclosure measures “, after which” the relaxation caused an epidemic recovery, which we call the second wave “.